Hebrews 12:14-29; Psalm 103:1-8 Jennifer Hosler Nate and I recently spent time in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The landscape is staggeringly beautiful. Expanses of sheer, sharp mountains, turquoise lakes, acres and acres of pine trees, aspen trees, and larch trees. We hiked most days and found ourselves climbing steeply through fields of alpine wildflowers and…
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There is a Spirit Which I Feel: The Cloud of Witnesses
Hebrews 11:29-12:2, Luke 12:49 Micah Bales This passage from Hebrews that we just heard: It’s got to be one of the most frequently referenced parts of the Bible. I’ve heard it preached from the pulpit many times. It’s been the theme Scripture for church conferences and events. And it’s been the subtext for so…
Reflections on Annual Conference
Matthew 5:14-16 Mary Hoover Part of my responsibility as the delegate to Annual Conference is to give a report on and share my reflections of the Conference. When preparing for this I wasn’t sure who would be here today and I felt perhaps a bit of Annual Conference history might be helpful. Not only for…
THINGS ABOVE
Colossians 3:1-11 Luke 12:13-21 Jeff Davidson I was here two weeks ago, and at that time I talked about how Christ is in each of us. I spoke from Colossians chapter 1 and said that one of the things that Paul was trying to do was to combat the Gnostic heresy. That’s a heresy that…
Continue to Live Your Lives in Him
Nathan Hosler Colossian 2:6-15, Luke 11:1-13 Over the past weeks and, indeed years, it seems that there is has been a near ceaseless string of the notably bad. We often call these notably bad injustices, or perhaps unjust acts. We are now several years into a seeming endless and unfathomably tragic Syrian war. Nigeria and…
THE HOLY IN YOU
Colossians 1:15-28 Jeff Davidson Yet another week, yet another massacre of one kind or another. France suffers their third mass-casualty incident in the last year and a half, with more than 80 people killed. Hundreds are killed and thousands arrested in a coup in Turkey that has religious undertones, although it was conducted by the…
SEPARATE NO MORE
Revelation 7:9-17 Yakubu Bakfwash (Guest Speaker)
The Kingdom of God has Come Near
2 Kings 5:1-14, Luke 10:1-16 Micah Bales The Fourth of July brings up a lot of conflicting emotions for me. As a follower of Jesus, who was crucified by the nations, I’m skeptical of nationalism in all its forms. The rise of the nation-state has led to some of the bloodiest wars in human history….
FREEDOM or LIBERATED FOR JOY
Luke 9:51-62, Galatians 5:1, 13-26 Nathan Hosler Dietrich Bonhoeffer is known as a theologian who stood up to Hitler and was killed for it. When much of the German church fell in line with (or at least didn’t oppose) this nationalist, racist leader notorious for the Holocaust, Bonhoeffer resisted. He resisted by being a theologian that…
LISTENING DIFFERENTLY
Galatians 3:23-29 Christy Crouse Good Morning! My name is Christy Crouse and I’m a rising senior at Truman State University in Missouri and I have been interning with the Office of Public Witness here the past four weeks, and have definitely been interested in its work for quite some time now. If some of you…
Washington City Church of the Brethren 