Cynthia Lapp
What is ours to do?
Juneteenth, freedom day, jubilee day. It is a different independence day than the one I grew up with. Instead of July 4, 1776, this Independence Day took place on June […]
Pondering the Trinity
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
While I have titled this sermon “Pondering the Trinity,” I don’t spend a lot of time pondering the trinity. Except in preparation for Trinity Sunday, which is the Sunday after […]
God and Country?
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I recently completed a four week online class through Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary. It was called Resisting Christian Nationalism with the gospel of peace. Fifty people in the US, Canada, […]
Why Are You Weeping?
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Christ is Risen, Christ is Risen indeed. Here we are. It’s Easter; we made it through lent – and our journey with questions is not over. In our story today, […]
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 […]