August 11, 2024
Hagar was a woman, a girl really, UNSEEN. The Hebrew in today’s text repeatedly refers to her as a ‘slave girl’, insistent upon our awareness of her lowly status. She is a young person on the margins, a slave, a girl, an Egyptian and therefore an outsider and foreigner. Every year the second week of […]
July 14, 2024
How do we as Anabaptists tackle passages in scripture that seemingly contradict our loving God? While this sermon won’t answer every question, it will begin to discuss what it means to see a loving God in scripture passages such as Daniel 7. In this chapter we see a powerful God, but how can we also […]
July 7, 2024
As we move further into a climate changed world, we face greater uncertainty. We need to re-learn how to face the wild world, recognizing that we do not control the world. We can find hope in facing the wild.
June 16, 2024
What does this story imply about God and what does it say about us? For this week’s Sermon we will be wrestling with what it means to understand the God of Shadrach, Meshack and Abednego as our God, a God that is free and unbound in a way that allows us to be unbound and […]
June 2, 2024
This week I spent my days doing two main things. During the beginning of the week and last week, I have been studying the book of Daniel, which will be part of our focus for our summer series that we are beginning today. And then on Friday and Saturday I was on a retreat with […]