Sermons

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Special thanks to Elisa and Matthew Leahy for video production.

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Parables 

Prelude

Welcome and Call to Worship | Chaska Yoder

Peace Candle | Larry Less

As we worship in place today, we light a Peace Candle in our home, inviting you to light a Peace Candle in your home. The flame joins us in spirit across distance, along with our sister church in Armenia, Colombia.    

HWB 1 | What is this place | Jon and Krista Mueller 

Children’s Time | Katrina Cortes and children

A New Parable | Jeff Lookabaugh

Pastoral Prayer and Offering Dedication | Chaska Yoder

Special Music | Venetian Gondola |...

The video above includes the full service for today.  You can click on the four arrows in the bottom right of the video to make it full screen.  Clicking the three lines next to that will pull up the menu.

Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained through One License with license A-727859

Sermon | Speaking in parables | Joel Miller 

Text: Matthew 13:10-17

My memories of what happened in the college classroom are fuzzy at best, but here’s something I haven’t forgotten.   

During my first year at Hesston College – that’s a little Mennonite liberal arts college in Kansas - During my first year, I was in a New Testament class with some second career folks who were training to be pastors.  One of their assignments was to write their own parable, and then share it with the class.  And, after all these years, I still remember one of them. 

Here it is, more or less:

Some city dwellers wanted to know what it was like to be a farmer, so they decided to visit three different farmers to see what...