Jim Brenneman preached this sermon for the fourth Sunday of our Lent series, “Covenant: The Tie That Binds.” Things fall apart; the center cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . . Surely some revelation is at hand; . . .now I know that Twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare…
This is the first sermon in our Lent series, “Covenant: The Tie that Binds,” during which we explore what it means to be a covenanted community now, after the many changes of the past several years. This sermon was accompanied by a slide show of photos from our community’s life together. Please contact Sheri at…
Sermon by Jim Brenneman Deuteronomy 30: 11-16, 19a I. On this fourth Sunday of the New Year as we continue to consider choices we made in the past, some great, some not-so-great, we have opportunity to consider making different choices in the year to come. Some of our choices this year will be quite consequential…
Mark 1:14-20 One of the people who helped me reclaim Christianity when I was in my early 30s was Marcus Borg, a New Testament and Jesus scholar, who happened to be a close friend of my mentor Marianne Niesen. He actually achieved a measure of mainstream fame (for a New Testament scholar) for a series…
Matthew 2:1-12 An audio of the sermon can be found here. (Music and a children’s story come before the sermon.) Happy new year! Or is it — not happy, but new? I think many of you are familiar with the fact that different cultures and religions keep time differently. For instance, if we’re following the…
This is the first sermon in our Advent series called “Finding Freedom in Our Broken and Beautiful World.” We are basing this series on the work of Shannon Dycus, a Mennonite pastor and writer who wrote a lovely Advent Devotional, “The Holy in the Night: Finding Freedom in a Season of Waiting.” Matthew 24:36-44 Earlier…
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