Cynthia Lapp

The Word Comes To …

September 28, 2025
Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15
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Jeremiah is a strange bird. God’s word comes to him. He hears voices. He has visions. He makes bizarre choices. Jeremiah’s scribe, Baruch, keeps track of the strange experiences and […]

Honest Prayer

September 21, 2025
I Timothy 2:1-7, Jeremiah 8:18-9:1
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Most mornings, I try to start my day with prayers of gratitude. As I lay in bed and stretch, I look out the window and give thanks: the sky, clouds, […]

Free

August 24, 2025
Luke 13:10-17
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The Mennonite writer, Miriam Toews, has a short story in the most recent New Yorker, called “Something has come to Light.” It reminds me a little bit of the passage […]

When I Survey

August 17, 2025
Mark 10:45 I John 4: 9-10 Luke 12: 49-51
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A few years ago at an interfaith event, a Buddhist person asked me what Mennonites believe about suffering. I was at a loss. For Buddhists, understanding suffering, is central to […]

Bargaining with God

July 27, 2025
Genesis 18: 20-33
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The conversation we just heard between God and Abraham occurs between two stories that may be more familiar. The beginning of chapter 18 is the visit of three strangers to […]

Peace to this House

July 06, 2025
Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
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As a child growing up in small town Oregon, we were not a very political or activist family, though we did have a decal on our front plate glass window. […]

Lamentations

June 01, 2025
Lamentations 1,2,3,5
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What a time in the world it is. Our hearts are broken by the injustice and cruelty that we see and hear about every day. Our minds are preoccupied and […]

Saving Language

May 25, 2025
John 5:2-9
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A few years back, pre-pandemic, we had an intergenerational Sunday School class called Big Questions. One Sunday we asked What does it mean to be saved? and then How do […]

On the Journey

May 04, 2025
Acts 9:1-20; Galatians 1:11-24, 2:1-5
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All along my pilgrim journey, Savior let me walk with thee. That is how I attempt to live my life, walking with God. And I had been doing that, with […]

We Rise with Christ

April 20, 2025
Mark 16:1-20
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Christ is Risen. Christ is Risen indeed. Today is one of those Easters when it can be hard to go full joyful hallelujah. With the recent death of our beloved […]