Episode 10 | Table & Touch: The Meal That Makes a Body & the Kiss That Reveals It

Mar 14, 2026

1. You Asked for It (Q&A from Congregants & Listeners)

a) What do the 3,000 killed at Sinai have to do with the 3,000 saved at Pentecost (commemorating Sinai)?


2. Sermon Discussion

(a) Luke 9: The Feeding of the 5,000: the meal that revealed the Messiah

(b) Mark 1: Jesus touching, and healing, a leper: the touch that cleansed the world. And what's the significance of the command to "Greet one another with a holy kiss" (Rom. 16:16; 1 Cor. 16:20; 2 Cor. 13:12; 1 Thess. 5:26; 1 Pet. 5:14)?


3. Offerings

(a) NYT Essay: "We Study Mass Shooters. Something Terrifying Is Happening Online" by James Densley and Jillian Peterson

(b) Book: For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann


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"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd."

—Flannery O'Connor