Why do you come to church? There are lots of reasons, probably. But one of the main reasons is that there is something here that
In a world filled with war and killing, what is the point of being a voice for peace? What can one small person do in
Where do we find ourselves in the story that we just read? To help us think about this, I’m going to divide the congregation into
So Jonah went to the great city of Nineveh. The story tells us the city took three days to go through. The ancient city of
Today’s scripture shows a man who is very down. The Hebrew words for down and deep are used over and over again in Chapters 1
In Hebrew, Jonah means dove. The dove is a gentle little bird that turns up over and over again in scripture. Noah released a dove
What do you call this place where we are meeting? Do you call it an auditorium? A meeting house? A house of God? A sanctuary?
An epiphany, according to the dictionary, is “a sudden, intuitive insight into the essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple or commonplace experience.”
I am always watching. My life is watching. When I was little, I used to walk with my grandfather everywhere, and he used to say,
I am a Mennonite pastor currently teaching theology at Conrad Grebel University College in Waterloo, Ontario. I’ve served congregations in Ontario and most recently, Alberta.
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