by Mathew Swora | Sep 18, 2018
Deuteronomy 10: 17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. 18 He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow, and loves the foreigner residing among you, giving...
by Mathew Swora | Sep 12, 2018
… will be the focus of the Pathways, Session 2 (September 16) Even as we affirm God’s love for us, we recognize the brokenness of our world — and of ourselves. The wholeness God desires for creation has been fractured by sin, both personal and systemic. Christ’s...
by Mathew Swora | Sep 12, 2018
….is a study/discernment process for reflection, renewal and reporting by member churches of Mennonite Church USA, based on the three Renewed Commitments for MC USA. These were discerned from last summer’s (2017) Future Church Summit in Kansas City, MO. Those three...
by Mathew Swora | Sep 12, 2018
“My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you…” Galatians 4:19 (When you read that the title of today’s message is “Christian FACE Formation,” that is no typo. By the time I’m done with this message, I hope we...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 15, 2018
In what has to be one of history’s most poignant, trenchant ironies, yesterday’s report from a grand jury in Pennsylvania about decades of sexual abuse by predatory priests, and of cover-ups in high ecclesiastical offices, was released on the same day that Roman...
by Mathew Swora | Aug 14, 2018
If the Bible stopped at Daniel Chapter 11, we would not hear the songs that Bethel Mountain Band is going to sing. I don’t know what they’d sing about instead: maybe chicken soup or halibut fishing. Their next songs, however, are about eternal life, heaven, whatever...
