Don’t Give Up | Donovan Drake Preaching | Tenth Sunday After Pentecost | 08.02.26

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Are You Ready For Sunday…

Living out the word

They replied, “We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.”

• What are the factors that need to be present for you to do a difficult and right thing?
• What “nothings” do you have that God can move toward abundance?
• Are there occasions when we are fed through God’s abundance?

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Talking the Text Podcast

Westminster Talking the Text Podcast for Sunday, August 2nd, 2026 | Matthew 14:13-21 | with Donovan Drake, Guy D. Griffith, and Will Wellman

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Scripture

Matthew 14:13-21

Jesus feeds 5000 

14:13 Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns.

14:14 When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.

14:15 When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves."

14:16 Jesus said to them, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat."

14:17 They replied, "We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish."

14:18 And he said, "Bring them here to me."

14:19 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.

14:20 And all ate and were filled, and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.

14:21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.