ReCreate Church’s Podcast

Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, Sunday, March 5, 2023

Feeding Hungry Souls Today, Pastor Michael is talking of how Jesus was taking a retreat with the apostles, all of them essentially worn out from a ton of preaching, taking them to a deserted place for some recharge time. Wouldn’t you know it? When they arrived, there were already many folks waiting for them! A bunch of folks! Jesus looked out over the crowd and felt empathy, a group of lost wanderers with no sense of direction—a deep hunger for “more”; a sheep without a shepherd. Jesus speaks to them about life, redemption, peace, and meaning. He preaches for hours, but the crowd is getting hungry, a perfectly reasonable thing to happen. The disciples start doing the math on how much it will take to feed the masses and come up short, as in seriously short! They return to Jesus and inform Him they can only provide some with what they have. Yet, they forgot the team they were on; they’ve seen miracles and are so hung up on what they thought they needed and didn’t have that they lost sight of what they DID have. Jesus told them to inventory what they DID have; they had five loaves of bread and two fish. Not a lot. From that minuscule amount of bread and fish to work with, Jesus took that and blessed the food and started handing it out. And He handed it out to over 5,000 people, and they were fed. So Jesus miraculously created twelve fish and bread baskets, and no one went hungry! It’s not really about the fish and bread, it’s about feeding souls. What Jesus really had to offer was Himself! (CSB Study Bible Notes) 6:44 A total of five thousand men were fed. Mark’s word (Gk) andres (“males”) is gender specific. Matthew adds “besides women and children” (Mt 14:21) which mean that considerably more than five thousand people were fed. Verses can be found today in Mark 6:30 - 44. Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.

Broadcast on:: 06 Mar 2023

Feeding Hungry Souls

Today, Pastor Michael is talking of how Jesus was taking a retreat with the apostles, all of them essentially worn out from a ton of preaching, taking them to a deserted place for some recharge time. Wouldn’t you know it? When they arrived, there were already many folks waiting for them! A bunch of folks! Jesus looked out over the crowd and felt empathy, a group of lost wanderers with no sense of direction—a deep hunger for “more”; a sheep without a shepherd.

Jesus speaks to them about life, redemption, peace, and meaning. He preaches for hours, but the crowd is getting hungry, a perfectly reasonable thing to happen. The disciples start doing the math on how much it will take to feed the masses and come up short, as in seriously short! They return to Jesus and inform Him they can only provide some with what they have. Yet, they forgot the team they were on; they’ve seen miracles and are so hung up on what they thought they needed and didn’t have that they lost sight of what they DID have. Jesus told them to inventory what they DID have; they had five loaves of bread and two fish. Not a lot.

From that minuscule amount of bread and fish to work with, Jesus took that and blessed the food and started handing it out. And He handed it out to over 5,000 people, and they were fed. So Jesus miraculously created twelve fish and bread baskets, and no one went hungry!

It’s not really about the fish and bread, it’s about feeding souls. What Jesus really had to offer was Himself!

(CSB Study Bible Notes) 6:44 A total of five thousand men were fed. Mark’s word (Gk) andres (“males”) is gender specific. Matthew adds “besides women and children” (Mt 14:21) which mean that considerably more than five thousand people were fed.

Verses can be found today in Mark 6:30 - 44.

Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.