Sermon: Mennonites, War and Taxes

By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Micah 6:1-8 Imagine yourself in the forest that we just heard about during Children’s Time. What do you think you’d be noticing if you were in the forest? Maybe the sound of birds or the height of the trees? Maybe the skittering of the squirrels, rustling the leaves as they bound…

Trinity Sunday Matthew 28:16-20 Jesus and his disciples were sitting around, and he asked them, as he liked to do: “Whom do people say that I am?” And his disciples answered, “Some say you are John the Baptist returned from the dead; others say Elijah or other of the old prophets.” And Jesus said, “But…

By Joanna Shenk Psalm 85:8-13 A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a loved one in which they asked me if I thought holiness and righteousness were important… or if I valued them as a Christian. I can’t remember exactly how they said it, but it was said in a way that…