Sermon: Mennonites, War and Taxes

  Zephaniah 1:7, 12-18, Psalm 90:1-11, Thessalonians 5:1-11 Imagine the scene, if you will: It’s a Tuesday morning, and I’m sitting in my upstairs office with my nice hot cup of tumeric ginger tea beside me. My purring cat is asleep on my lap, and I’m snuggly and warm in my fake-sheepskin-lined slippers on this…

By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Mark 11:1-11 As we begin this holy week, reality feels anything but holy. We are walking through the valley of the shadow of death. What good news is there for us in the Palm Sunday story? How can we wave palm branches and shout hosanna when our hearts are heavy with…

Matthew 2:1-22 For four weeks during Advent, we dwelt in the dark. We encouraged each other to rest there, to embrace it as fertile and magnificent. As the place from which new birth comes. And then, on the fourth Sunday of Advent, Mary was awakened by an angel, who told her she would birth the…