Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants. 2 He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the...

So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak.25 When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. 26 Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is...

John 21: 13: Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.  With a simple beachfront meal of bread and grilled fish, time begins running backwards and the curse of sin, shame and death starts coming undone. Remember how, at the...

Luke 13: 10 On a Sabbath Jesus was teaching in one of the synagogues, 11 and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. 12 When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to...

Hebrews 13: 11 The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. 12 And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. 13 Let us, then, go...

MYF Campout at Deschutes Canyon: July 2016 The MYF (Harrison and Emma Gingerich, Camryn and Jayce Roth, Tristan Oakes and Jared Oyer) had a great campout in the beautiful Deschutes wilderness, July 15-17 with Craig and Jana; We thought about how God is present with...

Does the Gospel need to be “tamed?” Does Christianity need to bend the knee to post-modernity and worship at the altar of tolerance and progressivism as the only alternative to religious terrorism? That is what Dr. Gary Gutting, professor of philosophy at The...

LUKE 12: 13 Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” 14 Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?” 15 Then he said to them, “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed;...

Luke 9: 51 As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not welcome him, because he was...

.....from Pastor Mathew Swora, of Zion Mennonite Church, paid for through the time he put into writing this essay (about $3.75 worth). It is political in that it has to do with our public lives, as well as our personal ones. Any other similarity to the upcoming...