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  • Sermon: At-one-ment

        Pentecost – Acts 2:1-21 I took Patrick to a medical appointment on Monday and was talking with a staff person there that I have gotten to know over the years. She knows I’m a Mennonite, and she told me that she had just listened to a Malcolm Gladwell podcast about Mennonites. I decided…

  • Sermon: Uncomfortable Love

    I John 4:7-21 As I was preparing for this sermon, I felt like a rather insistent jukebox kept playing in my head. And didn’t I just date myself there? What I meant to say was: A rather insistent Spotify playlist kept playing in my head. The main song was, of course, “All you need is…

  • Sermon: Following Jesus to Jerusalem

    By Sheri Hostetler This is the last sermon in a Lenten series called “Capitalism: A Bible Study.” Much of this sermon draws heavily from the first chapter of Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan’s book, The Last Week: What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus’s Final Days in Jerusalem. I have tried to note when I…

  • Children’s Story: Zacchaeus and Jesus

    By FMCSF Youth Group Note: Our church’s youth group rewrote the Gospel stories for each Sunday of Lent and then presented them as children’s stories during worship. Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 18 Luke 19:1-10 (Jesus and Zacchaeus) While traveling with his poor people’s movement, Jesus and his friends, had a protest march in Manhattan,…

  • Sermon: Zacchaeus, Redistribution and Salvation

    By Joanna Shenk This is the fifth sermon in a Lenten series called Capitalism: A Bible Study. Luke 19:1-10 Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend the Clarence Jordan Symposium in Americus, Ga. The symposium marked 75 years since the founding of Koinonia Farm, which was the first interracial community in the South. Clarence…

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