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Sermons
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Sermon: An essential story
Text: Luke 1:26-38
Speaker: Joel Miller
Song: STS 11 No wind at the window, v. 1
"No wind at the window, no knock at the door; no light from the lampstand, no foot on the floor; no dream born of tiredness, no ghost raised by fear: just an angel and a woman and a voice in her ear."
In this Advent season focused on the essentials, we have now reached the essential story. Not that the others aren’t important – Jesus calling to be watchful for the coming of the Human One, John the Baptist’s claim that one more powerful than he is coming, the hopeful words of the prophets Isaiah and Micah, even the birth of Jesus – these are all part of the holy drama of the season. But for any of those prophetic words to be fulfilled, for Jesus to be born in the first place,...
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Essentials: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love, Immanuel, Epiphany
Prelude
Welcome
Land Acknowledgement
Call to Worship
VT 281 | Joyful Is the Dark
Advent Candle Lighting
Children’s Time
Offering/Dedication and Pastoral Prayer
VT 240 | Joy to the World
Scripture | Isaiah 12:2-6
Special Music
O Come, O Come, Immanuel | Jacqui and Ryan Hoke
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear | Joel Call, Tom Blosser, Steve Rolfe, Karl Helmuth
Mary had a Baby | Phil Hart and friends
Children’s Christmas Program | Acts of Angels
VT 412 | My Soul Cries Out
Scripture | Philippians 4:4-7
Special Music
Still, Still, Still | Abbie Miller, Katie Graber, Ivan and Nina Graber-Nofziger, Karl Helmuth
Silent Night | Katrina and Matthew Brown
O Holy Night | Debra and Galen Martin, Sarah Martin
VT 229 | Unexpected and...
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Sermon | Peace and release
Texts: Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 3:1-14
Speaker: Joel Miller
It’s the second Sunday of Advent and the candle of peace has been added to the candle of hope. For those of us who identify as Mennonite, or at least Menno-curious, this is a familiar theme. Mennonites have long believed that peace and peacemaking, rather than being an optional extra for Christian living, is essential to the gospel itself. Jesus models for us the kind of peaceful humanity we both aspire toward and can never quite reach. A peace-centered faith has all kinds of implications in how we relate with our militarized national government, the international community, and immigrants and refugees who enter our country; where we invest money; advocacy for ending the death penalty; our relationship with creation and our neighbors and ourselves. Kind of everything. We believe in...
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ADVENT 1 | Essentials: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love, Immanuel, Epiphany
Speaker: Mark Rupp
Texts: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Luke 21:25-36
Sermon text:
Sing a Song of Hope Once More
Some birds sing when the sun shines bright
Our praise is not for them
But the ones who sing in the dead of night,
We raise our cups to them...
Some flowers bloom where the green grass grows,
Our praise is not for them.
But the ones who bloom in the bitter snow,
We raise our cups to them.
These are lyrics from the final number of the musical Hadestown, which my husband and I had the opportunity to see a few weeks ago. The show is a modernized retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Instead of...