KINGDOM GROWTH

  Mark 4: 26 He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God is like. A man scatters seed on the ground. 27 Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how. 28 All by itself the soil produces grain—first the...

LIFE OF THE BELOVED: A Retreat

This is a guided retreat that the Pastoral Leadership Team (Elders and Pastors) of Zion Mennonite Church recently did together. Out of the need to “nurture the nurturers,” I drew it up, based on one of the books that has most nurtured me, Life of the...

WHERE ARE YOU?” Overcoming Shame

Genes 3: 8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”  He answered, “I heard you...

PREPARATION FOR KANSAS CITY 2015: A SURVEY

To help your congregational delegates to the biennial delegate convention of MCUSA this summer, Joe Parker and Mathew Swora, with their discernment, and so that all might hear “what the Spirit is saying to the church” (Rev. 2:9), we solicit your most prayerful...

THE JOY OF THE GOD-BEARING LIFE

Now at this time Mary arose and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah,  and entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.  And...