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...

WHEN WE SAY “JESUS IS LORD”…

Eph. 1: 20b…God raised Jesus from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come; 22 and he has...