THIS 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. […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – February 28-March 5, 2024
I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications.Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live. … Gracious is the Lord and righteous; our God is merciful.The Lord protects the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.Return, O my soul, to your rest, for the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. For […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – February 21-27, 2024
O Lord, grant me to greet the coming day in peace, help me in all things to rely upon your holy will. In every hour of the day reveal your will to me. Bless my dealings with all who surround me. Teach me to treat all that comes to me throughout the day with peace […]
Read postTHIS WEEK @ FMC – February 14-20, 2014
“Can we see the face of Christ on a neighbor flying a rainbow flag or wearing a MAGA cap? If you can, you might be a philanthrope. More than financial generosity, philanthropy, broadly defined, is love of people. In the Christian ideal, it’s a love that not only casts others in a positive light but […]
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