Sermons
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 […]
A Window Into Faith
Speaker: Michaela Atencio
What would it look like for someone “outside” of God’s chosen people to become a predecessor to the Christ-child? And how might we as Christ-followers learn about faithfulness from someone […]
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 […]
A New Song In Deed: 20th Anniversary of Cindy Lapp’s Ordination
Speaker: Mary Hunt
Good morning on this festive occasion of Cindy Lapp’s 20th Anniversary of Ordination. What a great day for Hyattsville Mennonite Church, indeed for the whole community into which her ministry […]
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.” […]
Repairers of Breaches
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
How lovely to be here with all of you. Imagine my surprise when I took a look at the lectionary passages for today, knowing that this would be my first […]