abundance Archives - Congregational Church of La Jolla

In this sermon on the Feeding of the Five Thousand, Rev. Tim begins with Jesus withdrawing to grieve John the Baptist’s execution, choosing solitude over strategy and “rest as resistance.” But the crowds find him anyway, and Jesus meets them with splagchnizomai (σπλαγχνίζομαι), a gut-level compassion that turns scarcity into abundance.