Unfortunately, the comments section of The Mennonite online is currently closed. So I will post below my thoughts in response to a recent essay there by Don Blosser, retired pastor and professor of New Testament at Goshen College, entitled, "Let's Let Jesus Speak for...

From the official report issued in Orodara, Burkina Faso, in November, 2019, for the 40th anniversary celebration of the Mennonite Church and of Mennonite mission work.  Translated from the French by Pastor Mathew Swora The General Context The Evangelical Mennonite...

Ephesians 3: 8 Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, 9 and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in...

“In Christ, you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit” (Eph. 2:22) “You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house” (I Peter 2:5) The vast majority of the world’s 65-70 million displaced people are...

I Cor. 12: 12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to...

Matthew 16: 13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?” 14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” 15 “But what about...

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi[a] from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.”3 When King Herod heard...

Luke 2:41 Every year Jesus’ parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of the Passover. 42 When he was twelve years old, they went up to the festival, according to the custom. 43 After the festival was over, while his parents were returning home, the boy Jesus stayed...

This is a talk which I gave at Calvary Mennonite Church during worship on Sunday, December 30, 2018. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.  Matthew 24: 14 9 After this I looked,...

 Luke 1: 7John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? 8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you...