Matthew 28:16-20, Matthew 9:35-10:4 I don’t like this text (Matthew 28:16-20), and I almost didn’t preach on it because I dislike it so much. Called “the Great Commission,” it’s one of the three main Biblical “texts of terror” used to justify colonization, not to mention really bad missionary theology. It appears to be — or…
This is the first in an Eastertide mini-series called “Rewilding Jesus” that unearths fun and feral images/ideas about Jesus, the Jewish prophet deeply rooted in his place and his community and undomesticated by Empire. Almost a year ago, I was in Milan to officiate the wedding of one of our former MVSers, Alyssa Schrag, and…
The sermon by Sheri Hostetler is interspersed wth Helen Stoltzfus’ “An Easter Poem.” A video an audio recording of the sermon can be found in this folder. Matthew 28:1-10 There are worlds within this story. We have tried for so long to put this story into a little box. It contains multitudes. We have said…
This is the fourth sermon in our Lenten series, “Fully Alive: Living as Warrior, Monk and Mystic.” It is followed by a reflection by Kelli Pearson, a member of our congregation, on identifying with the mystic archetype. John 17:20-26 Have you ever had the experience of being enlarged? In that moment, you felt yourself a…
This sermon is the third in our Lenten series called “Fully Alive: Living as Warrior, Mystic, Monk.” It is followed by a reflection by David Wieand, a member of our congregation, on identifying with the monk archetype. Luke 10:38-42 Are you, like Martha, distracted by many things? Do you feel fragmented, pulled in many directions?…
This sermon is the first in our Lenten series called Fully Living: Living as Warrior, Mystic, Monk. Matthew 4:1-11 Let’s do a Zoom poll but without actually being on Zoom.How many of you have had a practice of observing Lent at some point in your life — either you grew up with or it or…
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