THIS 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 […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – April 10-23, 2024
Lord, help us not to dwell too much on the past, holding you to the Galilean hills and the streets of Jerusalem, but to know you more and more as present Lord and Saviour, risen, ascended, and always present with us through the power of the Holy Spirit. AMEN (United Kingdom. From: A Procession of […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – April 3-9, 2024
“…[Jesus’] rising from the dead proves we have good standing with the Great Spirit. This good standing we have brings peace with the Great Spirit. This peace comes from trusting in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One and what he has done for us. Our trust in him opens the way into Creator’s great […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – March 27-April 2, 2024
“O Christ, as we follow you down the road to Calvary guide us to become active participants, not curious bystanders. O Christ, as we stand with the mourners at the cross give us the love that can forgive those who trespass against us. O Christ, as we witness the new life given to us through […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – March 20-26, 2024
While [Jesus] was at Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very costly ointment of nard, and she broke open the jar and poured the ointment on his head. (Mark 14:3) For five Sundays now in a row we have come […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – March 6-19, 2024
Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace, through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord. […]
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