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Pondering Mary (Fourth Sunday of Advent)
This week, Rob led us in our reflection for the fourth Sunday of Advent on Luke 1:26-38. Here we find Mary as an example for us in responding to God’s purposes, and we learn from her what it means to “let it be.” How do we respond to interruptions? How do respond to the unexpected?
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Can I Be Whole When I’m Broken (Third Sunday of Advent)
In Advent, we continue to focus on our need for a savior. We anticipate the hope, but we reflect, in our brokenness, “God, where are you?” How can we find wholeness in our brokenness? Dotti reflects on this this week in here sermon “Can I Be Whole When I’m Broken.”
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Suffering through Advent (Second Sunday of Advent)
“May we venture into the wilderness this Advent with expectant hearts preparing ourselves to meet God in our suffering and emerge with a renewed commitment to bring about the leveling of uneven ground and an increased capacity to comfort all who suffer.”
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Tear Open the Heavens and Come Down! (First Sunday of Advent)
Let us this year not get caught up in the noise and easy consumer joy of the Christmas around us. In Advent we anticipate Jesus. We anticipate healing. We sit in lament, repentance, and hope for true healing. The light will dawn from on high to guide our feet in the way of peace (Luke…
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Joined with Shame
God in Jesus Christ crucified mingles with what is most shameful to us, and this mingling is a stumbling block, foolishness and weakness to those who are perishing, but it’s God’s power, wisdom and salvation to those who believe.
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What PMC Means to Me (Youth Sunday)
Recently, the youth put together a great service of music and sharing. During our sermon time, Aaron Sharp, Ezra Muthiah, and Alyssa Tipton all offered some reflections on Luke 2:41-52 and what Pasadena Mennonite means to them.
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Subversive Joy: Singing Along to the Soundtrack of Shalom
Osheta shared with us about subversive joy. Not a saccharine, everything is fine, ignore our suffering joy, but a joy that is an act of defiance against the forces of despair in our world. Give it a listen!
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A People of Peace (Anabaptist Values 18)
Mennonites claim to be a people of peace. But what does it mean to be a people of peace? Though, through time, the notion of “peace” that Mennonites have embraced has shifted, at no point was peace ever simply relegated to an inner-heart peace that did not impact the way one existed in the world.
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Washing Feet (Anabaptist Values 17: Service)
Jesus washes his disciples’ feet. And he even washes the feet of the one who would betray him because Jesus washes feet indiscriminately. He serves all indiscriminately. Are there people in our community whose feet you do not want to wash? Are they your Judas? Do you not agree with their “lifestyle”? Or do you…
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Our Response to DACA Matters… or We Are (and are not) All Immigrants
Many of those in our nation today are in mourning. They are angry and they are saddened. Some are shocked by the direction of our country. Others have seen this before. Still we mourn. We mourn for young adults, for contributing members of our communities, for our dear friends, who not only face deportation from…
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