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Stepping Stones: Milestones

Joshua 4 (excerpts) Since near the end of May, it feels like all I, all we, have been doing is marking various milestones. Late spring tends to be the…

Stepping Stones: Shelter in God the Rock

Psalm 18: 1-6, 16-19, 46 Introduction One of my favourite rocks is found in Eastern Ontario within Bon Echo Provincial Park. It is Mazinaw Rock…

Baptism Reflection for Ana Joy Jarvis

Hidden Acres Camp 2 Corinthians 5:16-20 A few weeks ago, when I was meeting with you Ana Joy, to talk about your desire to be baptized, I asked at one…

Peace Through Truth: Mennonite Residential School Healing

Scott Morton Ninomiya Once in a blue moon I preach here at SJMC and today that is literally the case in the astronomical sense (it just happened at…

Peace in our Time

‘Welcoming’ Peace in Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 The Acts 2 story of Pentecost has not been one of the traditional scriptures Mennonites have turned to when…

Peace in Our Time: Nurturing Peace

Luke 4: 31-39, 40-44; Luke 5: 1-3, 12-16 Introduction Many of us watched NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) recent Artemis II…

April 19, 2026 – Peace in our Time: Grounded in Peace

Dialogue #1 – Mark Diller Harder and Don Penner Genesis 18:1-15 (Mark and Don go up on stage and sit on two stools. Have a dialogue) Mark: So Don…

Dwelling in Dissonance: Death and Resurrection

I Have Seen The Lord! John 20:1-25 Introduction When my son was little, probably around age 5, I remember this one time we went for a hike as a…

Dwelling in Dissonance: Expectation and Openness

John 12:12-27; 19:16b-22 Dramatic Reading (sermon part 1) What a week it was. I saw people starting to line the streets one day and soon heard the…
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