Dreamhouse | Message Of The Week

When Jesus in his grief over the death of John the Baptist meets a crowd of five thousand, he doesn't retreat. Matthew’s gospel tells us that he has compassion on them. Where the disciples just see the impossible, he invites them into something greater. "You feed them." Drawing on N.T. Wright's sense of vocation and Pope Benedict XVI's writing on public faith, this sermon on Matthew's feeding of the five thousand asks what it means to bring what little we have — five loaves, two fish, our own exhaustion — into the hands of the One who blesses it, breaks it, and hands it back to a hungry world through ordinary people. For the disciples, "you feed them" was about bread. For Jesus, it was an invitation into communion and fellowship with him, the one who sees people and has compassion.Gospel Reading: Matthew 14:13-21Sunday Worship Service — August 2, 2026DreamHouse Church | Newport News, VirginiaSermon by Pastor Scott Crowder