Cynthia Lapp
The Word Comes To …
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
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 […]