Apocalyptic Love
Have I ever told y'all about the time I was hiking and came across a burning bush that started talking to me? The bush told me that it was God and that I was chosen...
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Authentic LoveHas audio
[This sermon was preached on our 2026 Safe Church Sunday - when we also had a training for all volunteers with kids & youth. As Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship - we are committed to being...
Hungry CaterpillarsHas audio
One of my favorite books, that I read again and again a long time ago… and a book that I have read again and again dozens of times in the last year and a half…...
All ThingsHas audio
There is a natural yearning, a human tendency towards trying to find the commonality, the thing we all share. We say, things like, “We’re all the same on the inside.” “Everybody’s just doing the best...
To All Who are CalledHas audio
Last week, on two flights traveling back home to North Carolina, depending on your perspective I was gifted or cursed with two talkative seatmates. I had just left the grizzly country of Montana - and...
Doopsgezinde, ride out!
I had the awesome privilege of a grand adventure this past May. For 16 days, I joined 8 Mennonites from Winnipeg and we traveled across Holland and ventured into Belgium. The journey was a pilgrimage...
Community is the Center of our Lives
There’s a great saying attributed to Dorothy Day, the great 20th century friend of the poor, anti-war and labor activist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Dorothy is remembered as saying: “Everyone wants a...
Learning to Dance
The first and only time I’ve taken dance lessons was a month into marriage with Alli. We signed up for a partner ballroom dance class because we thought it would be fun and our friends...
Gifts of Transformation
We all want something to change. We’re all longing for something to be transformed. Maybe you want to change. Maybe you wish you’d finally reach that DuoLingo streak you keep missing by a few days....
Praying
Psalm 13 (VT #728), Psalm 46:10 (VT #730), Romans 8:26 (VT #729), Philippians 4:4-7 (VT #726) As you probably noticed, all of our Bible passages for today are taken from one page of our hymnal,...
Deny yourself
“Then Jesus told his disciples, ‘If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me’” (Matthew 16:24). Self-denial. That’s what we do, as Christians. That’s who...
Keys, keys, keys
“I got them keys, keys, keys / I got them keys, keys, keys / I got them keys, keys, keys.” That’s DJ Khaled. He’s a rapper, kinda. And when I hear Jesus in our passage...
Advent at night
Advent 1 Sometimes, in the morning, when I’m waking up, I find myself in a dream world where everything is as it should be, a world without pain and sorrow, a world full of joy...
Stand in Grace
Trinity Sunday - May 29, 2016 I’m preaching on the Romans text today, which feels a little weird, given the joyous embodiment of the gospel in the sermon the children preached together last week. Now...
Pentecost: Oscar Romero
Day of Pentecost On Pentecost we pay attention to the mystery of the Holy Spirit, the presence of God poured out from heaven: God’s spirit alive in us, alive in our world. What are the...