Cynthia Lapp
We Need Jesus, Y’all
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
The gospels give us a lot of stories about Jesus healing people. It can be one of the most exciting things about Jesus. Jesus makes blind people see, deaf people […]
Into The Lake
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Once he had a family, but that was before. Now there is no place for him. Everyone has had to distance themselves from him, his violent threats and outbursts are […]
Dear Dr. King
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Dear Dr. King, We received your letter written from a Birmingham jail cell in August, 1963. It arrived a lifetime ago, more than 2 lifetimes of Michael Brown, more than […]
The Temple And Useless Flesh
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I must start by thanking Gene Miller for pointing out the sermon for me today. Last week after the service, Gene came to me, bible open, pointing to the passage […]
Bathsheba and David: Part II
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
You notice that this sermon is part 2. Sometimes the lectionary works that way for preachers. (After these two heavy weeks with David, I am sure we will all be […]
Bathsheba and David: Part I
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
About 12 summers ago, when I was learning to be your pastor, Joe Roos and I sat on chairs right here and had a conversational sermon about this passage from […]
Holy Interruptions
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I have been thinking about bodies this week: black bodies, brown bodies, white bodies, LGBTQ bodies, straight bodies, young bodies, old bodies, athletic bodies, bodies that struggle to move. What […]
From Small Seeds
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
We are such good Anabaptists here at Hyattsville Mennonite, so focused on Jesus and his teachings. Our friend Elham – new to the faith, commented to me recently that she […]
Philip and E.E.
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Reading this text over and over this week brings back a vague childhood memory of this story from Acts. It was in my bible story book: the picture was of […]
“If We Must Answer Today”
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
After the devastation of Jesus’ death, and the exhilaration of his resurrection, the small disparate group of good Jews, outcasts, struggling fishers, healed and hoping-to-be-healed really begins to expand. These […]