Pasadena Mennonite Church

Midway between gen X and millennials, Tim identifies more with a micro-generation: “the Oregon Trail generation.” This is the final generation with an analog childhood and an adolescence marked by a seismic shift to a digital world. Tim compares the slowness of the Oregon Trail game with the pressures of covid. In Ephesians this week,… Read more

Melissa Spolar spoke about venturing out after improvements in COVID care post-vaccine. She participated in two mud & obstacle races. The first, “Tough Mudder,” was presented with teamwork as the spirit of the event. Next, a Spartan Race, was based on self-challenge, success and competition. Feeling covid isolation from church community, Melissa approached Ephesians 4:1-16… Read more

Lauren Murtidjaja tackles this passage that we’re almost too familiar with. Yet scripture is living, moving, breathing — so Lauren jumps in to share observations from her encounter with the text. What hasn’t been said about this story? Why is David not at battle with his troops as a King should be? David catches sight… Read more

Tim Reardon contrasts a monument to the Egyptian pharoah Ramses II o the temple that God would build from the time of David through to the time of Christ. The poem, Ozymandias, is a comment on a monument to fallen power — a call to fear. Paul’s description of the temple of God’s people built… Read more

Jason Timothy Smith deftly weaves together the symbols of our nation’s history, the art and life of Jasper Johns, the call of Ezekial as prophet to the nations of Israel in Ezekiel 2:1-5, and above all — the mercy of Jesus. See and hear as Jason calls us toward that mercy. Read more

A sighting of bald grapevines led Tim Reardon to look into viticulture — both now and in Jesus’ time. What he learned shed new light for him on Jesus’ parable of the vine in John 15. He learned that there is a source vine — a trustworthy root. And next that there are two types… Read more