2016
Wait With Joy
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Our advent theme this year is Wake. Watch. Wait. These three small words are easy to glide right over. They seem almost interchangeable in our advent context. Yet they hold […]
Watching For Shoots
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I am grateful for this season of advent. When all around we hear “buy, more, now” and “cook, bake, eat” it is a relief to come to church and hear […]
Wake!
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
Well, here it is, once again the first Sunday of Advent and instead of being greeted with a text of excitement and warm fuzzy anticipation about the impending birth of […]
Be Still, And Know!
Speaker: Sara Wenger Shenk
The Psalm has many familiar, reassuring cadences. Some of us may know it by memory. 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will […]
Frightening Omens, Patient Endurance
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I am grateful to be with you all again today. Last weekend I spent an intense and idyllic weekend with 160 women doing theology in Leesburg, VA. We were participants […]
Faithful Flexitarians
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
Yesterday was the fall delegate session for Allegheny Mennonite Conference. There were seven people from this congregation that attended the gathering. During the last several weeks, as we anticipated the […]
Centered In Christ
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Ephesians 2:11-22 Bear in mind, that at one time the men among you who were Gentiles physically – called the “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves the “circumcised,” all because […]
Talking About Salvation
Speaker: Gene C. Miller
I don’t often hear about salvation in our church any more, so I was glad to hear a bit about it when our Colombian brother, Ricardo Esquivia, was here earlier […]
In It Together
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
On World Communion Sunday it is natural for us to think about the wider church. And I don’t just mean MCUSA, on world communion Sunday we are invited to ponder […]
Jeremiah IV
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
This week, Michelle lent me her graphic novel version of Jeremiah. It is fascinating – and helpful – to see the book of Jeremiah in “comic strip” format. Though it […]