Cynthia Lapp
Nourishing Questions: What is Living Water?
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
We are claiming the questions in this lenten season: Nourishing Questions. Here are some of the questions in this story from John 4: “How is it that you, a Jew, […]
Nourishing Questions and the Reign of God
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the night, presumably because he has questions, questions about Jesus, questions for Jesus. He comes under cover of darkness which means these questions unnerve Nicodemus, […]
Enlightening
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Two weeks ago, on Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday, we read from the prophet Isaiah, “The people walking in darkness are seeing a brilliant light.” And here we have light again, […]
Anabaptist Light/Anabaptist Slant: World Anabaptist Fellowship Sunday
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
“Tell all the truth but tell it slant,” Emily Dickinson reminds us. That’s how a good story is told, gradually, with perspective, and context and details that may not be […]
Bathsheba’s Power
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Today in our study of the women in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus, we focus on the woman referred to as “the wife of Uriah.” Her own name is erased for […]
Tamar: Advent 1
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Our Advent theme will be a bit different this year at HMC – and across a number of Mennonite churches. Many congregations will be using Joanna Harader and Michelle Burkholder‘s […]
Remembering the Reign
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Today is the last Sunday of the liturgical year. Here at Hyattsville Mennonite it is the Sunday before Thanksgiving – and variously Christ the King Sunday, or Christa the Queen […]
Pharisee Humility
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I was in Goshen, Indiana this past week and stayed with my Aunt Ruth and Uncle Ron. One evening I said to Uncle Ron, “Tell me about Pharisees – without […]
Increase Our Faith
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Is it a demand? Increase our faith! A whiny complaint? Increase our faith. Maybe a patient mantra. Increase our faith. Increase our faith. Increase our faith. Jesus doesn’t seem all […]
Making Peace
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
On this 21st anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the worship committee suggested that it might be a good time to look at the Mennonite or Anabaptist “peace position.” […]