by Mathew Swora | May 12, 2015
John 15: 9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that...
by Mathew Swora | Apr 21, 2015
…the Ethiopian martyrs killed in Lybia this past weekend. On a Sunday morning in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in July, 2004, I attended a worship service in the Meserach Church of the Meserete Kristos denomination, the biggest partner denomination in Mennonite World...
by Mathew Swora | Apr 21, 2015
I John 3: 1 See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed....
by Mathew Swora | Mar 31, 2015
Mark 11: 12 On the following day, when they came from Bethany, he was hungry.13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for...
by Mathew Swora | Mar 10, 2015
I Cor. 1: 18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.” 20 Where...