Sermons
Granular Power
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Today on World Communion Sunday, people across the globe break bread together. Around the world Christians eat the bread of Christ together. This small sign of unity seems, to me, […]
What Is This?!
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
“In country town or city, some people can be found – who spend their lives in grumbling at everything around, oh yes, they always grumble no matter what they say, […]
Just Love
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
In these days when facts are untrue and laws are unjust, these words from Romans 13 are exactly what we need. They are a reminder of how basic our faith […]
Holy Ground
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Moses does not have an easy life, at least from the little information we get from the biblical text. Sure, he grows up in the palace but only after being […]
Trauma & Transformation
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
Many of you know that I am really into board games. As part of my interest in board games I sometimes listen to podcasts about games and gaming. On one […]
Walking In Storms
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
We had just finished passing out the bread and fish, we couldn’t believe there was enough. We were counting twelve baskets of leftovers when Jesus said we should get in […]
How Long, O God: Psalms of Lament
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
I love our heady, intellectual congregation, – and I love that there is room for the criers, as they call themselves, the people that admit to getting emotional in church. […]
A Voiceless Voice
Speaker: Michelle Burkholder
It feels fitting that right after Solstice, the longest day of the year – we start a 6 week series focused on the longest book of the Bible by chapter […]
The Holy Trinity
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
Today is Trinity Sunday which, for the Christ-centered, look-to-the-bible Anabaptist tradition, is kind of tricky. Because the trinity doesn’t really appear in the bible. Okay, it is in the passage […]
Recognizing The Paraclete
Speaker: Cynthia Lapp
This beautiful passage from John feels ethereal and mystical – love and comfort and the Spirit of truth, “the world neither sees her nor recognizes her; but you can recognize […]