Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 30th, 2007 No Comments »
A sermon for the first Sunday of Christmas, based on the Matthew 2 story of Herod’s “slaughter of the innocents.” Comparing Herod’s Bethlehem to modern times, Phil Kniss, pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA., said God came to redeem a violent world then and now. This is the basis of our hope as Christians in this New Year.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
A sermon for Advent 4, by Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor of Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, based on Psalm 80.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Sermon by pastor Phil Kniss, December 16, 2007. This is the third Sunday of Advent, and Phil’s sermon focused on the joy of Jesus’ coming, but gave it an unexpected twist by showing the upside down practice and purpose of Jesus puzzled his followers at the time, and still causes us to wonder at the counter culture aspects of it all.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Sermon by pastor Phil Kniss, December 9, 2007. This is the second Sunday of Advent, and Phil’s sermon asks the question of how we live well–that is, fully and joyfully–in a world full of suffering. He calls us to “turn toward God’s dream” of the peaceable kingdom, as described in Isaiah 11.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Sermon by pastor Phil Kniss, December 2, 2007. This is the first Sunday of Advent, and Phil’s sermon seeks to look with new eyes at the troubling “left behind” text in Matthew 24, advocating an approach that focuses on our Christian call to a life of attentiveness, which is made difficult by the chronic distraction we suffer from, due to cultural pressures and our own choices.
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