Sermon: Mennonites, War and Taxes
By Jim Lichti
By Jim Lichti
By Addie Liechty My experience at the Mennonite Church USA conference was…many things. As some of you know, I signed up for this task in the midst of break up grief/mania. I was dumped and the reason given was irreconcilable differences in regard to religion. My check-list for processing through this break-up reads like this:
By Joanna Lawrence Shenk Luke 24:36-43 I’m wondering if anyone here is a fan of zombie movies or shows? It seems like maybe “The Last of Us” was the most recent big hit? Or have there been others? I bring this up because I think it helps us understand the scripture passage today in a…
Mark 1:21-28 Note: I am going to be calling Jesus “Joshua” in this sermon, which is what our friend Elias Ramer — who is both a member of Congregation Sha’ar Zahav and of our community — calls him. (You may know Elias Ramer as Andrew Ramer.) “Jesus” is the Greek form of “Yeshua,” which would…
This sermon was given by James Brenneman on July 9, 2023. Jeremiah 34:8-14 (NRSVUE) 8 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to make a proclamation of liberty to them, 9that all should set free their Hebrew slaves, male and female, so that…
Mark 4:26-34, Ezekiel 17:22-24 Every young kid growing up during Jesus’ time would have been familiar with the prophecy from Ezekiel that Diego just read. Our kids recite Kendrick Lamar lyrics; those kids recited this prophecy — that God was going to take this small, vulnerable group of people and make something great of…
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…