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...

AS THE FATHER HAS LOVED ME…..AS I HAVE LOVED YOU

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...

IN MEMORY OF….

…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...