Pasadena Mennonite Church

Melissa Hofstetter shared with PMC, on June 16th, thoughts on the passage of Luke 5:17-31, or the “Sermon on the Plain.” This is the Luke parallel to the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew. Matthew’s re-telling of the Sermon on the Mount is full of beatitudes — blessing piled upon blessing piled upon blessing. In… Read more

For Pentecost Sunday, Tim Reardon asked us, “So what is the Holy Spirit? What place do we give the Spirit? How do we talk about her?” And “What do you imagine is happening on Pentecost?” Was this simply a sign, or is there more going on here? And what does the Spirit do? Tim invites… Read more

On June 2nd, Jason Smith reflected on Acts 16:16-34. Jason, accountant by day, painter by night (his Clark Kent/Superman existence ), wove together the works of artist Dinh Q. Le with the accounts of the healing of a fortune-telling slave woman and Paul and Silas’ subsequent imprisonment and release. As Dinh Q. Le weaves Vietnam… Read more

Reflecting on John 5:1-10, Steve Chun spoke to our church community last Sunday about the story of the man healed by Jesus at the pools of Bethesda. This story is different than many in John, in that he doesn’t appear to respond as a follower of Jesus, and we don’t see a transformation beyond the… Read more

Engaging with the reading of Matthew 5:38-48, Tim Reardon tackled the topic of peace. The Christian peace tradition was Tim’s draw to the Mennonite denomination during the build-up to the second Iraq war. This is peace not relegated to our hearts while taking up arms against enemies, nor as an ideal or demand or a… Read more