Keeping Faith with our Ancestors Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:3-7, Hebrews 11:1-3, 12:1-2 Good morning, everyone! Today I am joining in our worship via a recording I made here at the church yesterday. Covid hit our home this week, and I am not quite far enough along in recovery to re-join the world yet. It does […]
Isaiah 2:1-4, Matthew 5:38-48; Romans 12:9-21 Did you notice anything about the hymn we just sang? Voices Together 797 – We Are People of God’s Peace. For those who have been around awhile in the Mennonite Church, this is a very familiar hymn. It first appeared for Sunday morning worship in the 1992 Hymnal: A
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Mercy Scripture: Matthew 18:21-35 Well, this is one of those passages of scripture that seems to call for starting at the end. Jesus lets fly with a few real doozies in the gospels, but the one that ends this exchange in Matthew 18 is among the most startling. “This is how my heavenly Father
2 Samuel 12:1-7 Shalom Sharing – Sitting with the Truth MCC Exhibit Before I get into my sermon proper this morning, I will do the Shalom Sharing for this morning, although it is very related and becomes a kind of introduction already to the themes of the sermon. You will have noticed when
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Psalm 85 Introduction Partway down the slope of the Mount of Olives, just outside Jerusalem, there is a chapel called Dominus Flevit, which translated, means “the Lord wept.” The chapel is constructed in the shape of a teardrop, marking the location of Jesus’ lament over Jerusalem. This “teardrop chapel” commemorates the story of
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Thanksgiving Sunday Scriptures: Romans 12:4-8, Matthew 6:25-30 When we talk about ecological webs and the interconnection of things in nature, the striking example that’s made the rounds of late has to do with the wolves of Yellowstone. There are a few neat videos you can find on Youtube that tell the story, including one called:
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