By Joanna Lawrence Shenk This is the fifth sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Scripture excerpts from Judges, Samuel and Kings In the sermon today we have another great sweep of scripture to cover: Judges, 1 and 2 Sameul and 1 and 2 Kings….
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk This is the fourth sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Scripture excerpts from Exodus – Joshua (see below) We have a lot of ground to cover today so we’ll be reading excerpts from scripture throughout the sermon. The scope of…
Members of First Mennonite Church of San Francisco joined thousands who marched in the Global Climate Strike and March in San Francisco on Friday, September 20, 2019. It was a great day of Global Solidarity as marchers and protesters joined an estimated 4 million protesters or more, worldwide, to demand solutions to the Worldwide Climate…
This is the third sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Genesis 11:27-12:9 Before we continue telling the story of the Bible, I want to say about how I think of story. Stories do not have to be literally true to be profoundly true. Stories…
This is the second sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Genesis 2:8-9, 15-17; 3:1-24 We are going to do a Bible Study much like I remember preachers doing when I was growing up. Like those “olden times,” this will be easier if you have…
This is the first sermon in a series called “The Story of the Bible: A Hot Mess and a Healing Journey.” Genesis 1-2:4 Imagine you are an ancient Babylonian. You’re going about your daily business of whatever it is that ancient Babylonians did — harvesting crops, carving stones for the ziggurats. Imagine the kind of…
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