THIS WEEK @ FMC – September 25-October 1, 2024
The Mennonite World Conference Peace Commission offers this prayer for peace, calling us to embody a faith that follows the way of the Prince of Peace. May it be so… Lord, have mercy! Christ, have mercy! When, O Lord, will we learn that peace does not come through force? When, O Lord, will we learn […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – September 11-24
The earth is the Lord’s and all that is in it, the world, and those who live in it. Psalm 24:1 Prayers for creation (from Mennonite World Conference): We hear the Spirit calling us to respond to the suffering of creation by repenting, by turning from greed and selfish ambition: the entire cosmos is the […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – August 28-September 10, 2024
This fall at FMC we’ll be engaging with two different worship series. The first, beginning September 8, offers an Anabaptist lens to the theme, To Hope and Act with Creation, based on a series developed by the Season of Creation ecumenical coalition. Season of Creation is an invitation to Christians around the world to engage […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – August 14-27, 2024
God of wonder and curiosity, open my mind to the amazing world around me today. When I am confused or curious, guide me to wise people Who can help me understand new things. And no matter how long it takes for me to learn, I know you are always My patient teacher. Amen. Credit: illustratedministry.com […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – July 31-August 13, 2024
There’s a wild hope in the wind: her whisper is heard on the breeze. The gale is her shout that is calling us out. There’s a wild hope in the wind. O God in the wind, come gather us in, be our courage and promise. The future is dim, but we want to […]
Read postTHIS 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 […]
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