Luke 14:15-24 I want to start by thanking you Marcy for your profound communion story. In many ways your story captures the heart of our Scripture for this morning – with its themes of welcome and inclusion and joining together in God’s great banquet, joining at the table of our Lord. I wonder […]
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1 Kings 17:7-16 A few weeks ago, I was getting close to running out of storage memory on my home Google account. This is due primarily to how many photos and videos I have taken on my phone the last few years. So I spent a whole evening going backwards through my photos
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Brent Horst Exodus 16 Just listen to those Israelites! Here they are safe and no longer slaves to the Egyptians, but they complain and whine. There are many examples of this and Moses (and God to some degree) are often frustrated with their complaints. God love ‘em and lucky for them, God did!
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Introduction We have a fridge magnet with this question on it: “is it stomach, mouth or heart hunger?” It came from a workshop on healthy eating, and it’s meant to make us pause long enough to reconsider mindlessly grabbing something to eat from the fridge or the pantry. Is it stomach, mouth, or
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Romans 8:18-27 Last Saturday, and really the whole weekend, was a wonderful celebration I am still living with – the wedding of my daughter Lorena to Hannah Brubacher Kaethler up at Silver Lake Mennonite Camp. It was a great weekend, perfect weather, and a special one for me as a father. My heart
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Kevin Derksen Scripture: Romans 12:1-2, Mark 8:14-25 In my early days as a pastor here I was given a book that has since become one of my favorites. It’s a collection of stories and reflections on congregational ministry called This Odd and Wondrous Calling (Martin Copenhaver and Lillian Daniel, Eerdmans, 2009). This is
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