THIS WEEK @ FMC – July 17-30, 2024
Leaving home, we set our seeing, on a quest for deeper meaning. What we find can change us for the love of all the creation and its beings. Far from home, we know we’re seeing, everywhere is full of meaning; diff’rent folx expand our world and awe of all the creation and its beings. Coming […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 10-16, 2024
“A journey can become a sacred thing… … May you travel in an awakened way, gathered wisely into your inner ground; that you may not waste the invitations which wait along the way to transform you.” (John O’Donohue. To Bless the Space Between Us. Pg 55. Except from “For the Traveler”) PLEASE NOTE: New posts […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 26-July 9, 2024
Recently I spent an afternoon going through files I’d saved from college and seminary. Most of it ended up in the recycling bin, but I did hang on to some of the things I’d written. In 1993 I wrote a paper for Keith Sprunger’s History of Civilizaiton I class that I have no memory of, […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 12-25, 2024
I don’t often think of love as logical. At least not in a way that resonates with a typical defition of logical. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem (in the occupied West Bank where injustice, violence, death and oppression are daily realities), asserts there IS a logic of love that is inherently […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – June 5-11, 2024
“Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, who with great love still befriends us.” (VT 88; end of verse 3; text written by Joachim Neander 1680) This snippet from “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” has been playing in my head since Sunday when Peggy sent us out from worship with an arrangement based on […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 22-June 4, 2024
This hymn text, written by George Croly (England, 1867), creates a perfect bridge for us between our Pentecost celebration last Sunday and the beginning of our next worship/sermon series on 1 John next Sunday. I invite you to use this text as a prayer this week, continuing to open yourself to the movement of God’s […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 15-21, 2024
Faith, hope and love remain. And the greatest of these is love. These words of the apostle Paul keep popping up in my life! Love appears to be something a lot of people are exploring, which frankly, gives me hope! The email meditation today from the Center for Action and Contemplation (Richard Rohr) included a […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 8-14, 2024
One of the hymns about love I considered for worship this past Sunday is a new one written by a modern-day Anabaptist (Nathan Grieser), based on the writings of a 16th century Anabaptist (Pilgrim Marpeck). I love this text, especially the refrain: When we love, we move with Christ; love in us has come alive. […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – May 1-7, 2024
1 Thessalonians 3:12 offers a beautiful blessing which Pastor Jim invited us to share with each other this past Sunday. Here are a variety of translations of this verse to strengthen and encourage us in being open to God growing love within us. Love is, after all, what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13 endures, […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – April 24-30, 2024
Our friends at Mennonite World Conference (https://mwc-cmm.org/en) offer the following prayer for peace, words to help guide us and call us to action as we also lament the destruction of lives and creation caused by war and violence. May our tears become part of the healing of the world. Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! Lord, have […]
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