THIS WEEK @ FMC – February 26-March 4, 2025
Praise to the Lord, who o’er all things in wondrously reigning, guarding with sheltering wings, ever gently sustaining. Have you not seen all that is needed has been held in God’s gracious ordaining? Praise to the Lord, who will prosper our work and defend us. Surely God’s goodness and mercy shall daily attend us. Ponder […]
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Prayer of Thanksgiving – A Sixteenth Century Anabaptist Prayer Oh God, preserve us and your keeping,that we may not faint and abandon your word.Let us enjoy the faithfulness which you have shownthrough your son, Jesus Christ.Kindle in us the fire of divine love;lead us to practice […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – February 12-18, 2025
Keeping up with the unfolding story of Jesus’s teaching and healing in the Gospel of Luke, today’s text includes the familiar story of the healing of the centurion’s son, and the raising from the dead of the widow’s son in Nain. Both stories focus in on people who were on the edges of Jewish society […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – February 5-11, 2025
Remember Jesus’ first sermon, as recorded in Luke 4, in his hometown of Nazareth? In it, he clearly oriented his mission and purpose toward seeing and lifting up ‘the other’ – the poor, blind, oppressed, and imprisoned. A few weeks ago Pastor Jim urged us to note, as we read Luke, that evidence of Jesus […]
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