THIS WEEK @ FMC – March 4-18, 2025
When it feels like the ground is shifting under our feet it’s a good time to pause and sink our roots deeper into the One whose steadfast love we believe is more powerful than any other force, including death. Recently, on the podcast Everything Belongs (with Richard Rohr), James Finley was asked “How do we […]
Read postTHIS 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 […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – February 19-25, 2025
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 […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – January 29-February 4, 2025
These days it feels like we are wading out into some ‘deep water.’ Some of us might resonate with Simon’s skepticism and sense of scarcity in the story below from Luke 5 as we look at the evidence around us. Even though we are pausing our study of the Gospel of Luke in worship for […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – January 22-28, 2025
While we do not yet know what will unfold in 2025, we do know we have a unique opportunity as disciples of Jesus rooted in the Anabaptist tradition to, as MennoMedia puts it, take time to be “Looking Back, Living Forward” as we celebrate the 500th Anniversary of the beginnings of the Anabaptist movement. […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – January 15-21, 2025
“In this new year, may you find comfort knowing that, like the Magi, a light will guide you home. Rest in the hope that you never truly go alone – the love that knows your name goes alongside you and before you. Let this assurance fill you with peace and courage, open to the new […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – December 25, 2024 – January 14, 2025
For a child has been born for us, a son given to us;authority rests upon his shoulders, and he is namedWonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6) This is the week we open our hearts to make space for the ‘holy Child of Bethlehem’ to ‘descend on us … cast out our sin and […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – December 11-24, 2024
An excerpt from the Third Sunday of Advent reflection: Do the Good that is Yours to Do (by Kayla Craig; part of A Sanctified Art: Words for the Beginning worship resource) This Advent, in the quiet spaces of our hearts, where God’s still, small voice speaks, we are called to discern what is ours to […]
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