January 21, 2026 Paid subscribers
The Children’s Bread
Deliverance, Faith, and the Power of Beholding Jesus
There is a moment in the Gospels that unsettles us if we let it.
A Syrophoenician woman—a Gentile, a Canaanite by lineage—comes after Jesus, crying out for her daughter who is tormented by a demon. She does not approach politely. She presses in. The apostles are uncomfortable. They want her sent away. And then Jesus says something that, on the surface, sounds like a refusal:
“It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.” (Mk 7:27)
Yet this is not dismissal. It is revelation.
Because she answers—not offended, not retreating—but with astonishing clarity of faith: