Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Declaring that following Jesus is costly, Loren Swartzendruber, president of Eastern Mennonite University and Seminary and a member of Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg,VA, told his listeners, so costly that we would die for the church. He proposed that parents would say that while they are not willing to sacrifice their sons and daughters to die for the nation in war, they would be willing to send their children into dangerous places in the world in service to Jesus, places that could result in injury or death.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2008 No Comments »
“The apostle Paul wasn’t writing only to children and youth,” Ross Erb, pastor of children, youth and families at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, in his Sunday sermon, “he was writing to all of us when he said: ‘be transformed by the renewing of your minds.’ As this happens, some of what we know may need to be re-evaluated. At times it may feel like everything is shifting, but it is at those times that we need to go back to the truth, to go back to Jesus, to center ourselves in our faith community, to test out our relation to the world in the context of our faith community. The service was the annual back-to-school event when children and young people, reaching certain age milestones, were given Bibles and Bible instruction books to acquaint them early with what is in the scriptures.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 17th, 2008 No Comments »
Building good relationships between people of different religions does not mean setting aside essential elements of what we believe to be true, but rather living out clearly and explicitly God’s special regard for outsiders and foreigners, proclaimed Lawrence Yoder, missiology professor at Eastern Mennonite Seminary, Harrisonburg, VA and a member of Park View Mennonite Church. Basing his remarks on the Gospel story as found in Matt. 15:21-28 where the Canaanite woman taught Jesus to look beyond the “lost sheep of Israel” as his mission, Yoder exclaimed: “Just imagine, what will happen when more and more Christians get into the flow of what God is doing and saying!” Yoder, spending time in Indonesia bringing people together for mutual understanding and respect, gave a personal account of consultations and teaching experiences at the Sunan Kaligaga Islamic State University.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 10th, 2008 No Comments »
In her sermon on Matt. 14:22-33 about Peter walking on water, Barbara Moyer Lehman, associate pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, insisted that Jesus takes our many “ghosts” of fear by holding out his hand, speaking to us and giving us the confidence that our faith will carry us through the storm and winds.
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