Cynthia Lapp
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 […]
Resurrection Mystery
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
“I have seen the Teacher” shouts Mary Magdalene. Christ is risen, Christ is risen indeed. After the running, the weeping, the wondering, there is an awareness – an appearance of […]
Out From The Shadows
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
It is a joy to be back in the pulpit after 3 1/2 months. In some ways it feels like I never left. While I needed to take a break […]
Alert and Awake to Hope
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
On this first Sunday of Advent – and this last Sunday that I am with you for three months, I want to say something joyful and profound, memorable and inspiring. […]