Mennonite Church USA The Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthian Christians following a time of considerable frustration, disappointment and deep peril. He testified to being
In January 2010, I read my first book by Timothy Keller. Since that time, I have become a huge fan, reading his books and blogs and listening to his sermons online. Keller is the pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, which is having a significant impact there and around the world through its many church planting initiatives …
I came to the Land of Enchantment at roughly three miles over the speed limit. My uncle drove me, my trusty bicycle, an assortment of footwear, clothing, knickknacks and a guitar across the horizontal world of sky and land of Kansas into a land interrupted by rock formations …
Many Mennonites, at least those watching movies in the 1980s, likely remember the stir caused by Witness, the 1985 film set among the Lancaster, Pa., Amish community. Rather than joining the debate about whether the movie transcends the standard pattern of action flicks, my mind after all these years remains fixated on a small encounter between an obnoxious tourist and Harrison Ford, who is posing as an Amish man …
I teach chemistry (not everyone’s favorite subject), so I’m used to people not wanting me to give a presentation. When someone called in a bomb threat, however, after reading that I would speak at Markham (Ill.) Mennonite Church on a Sunday morning in 1988, it involved a topic more important to me than chemistry …
Romans 13 starts with this phrase: “Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities.” What does that mean? Are we always supposed to obey everything the government tells us to do?
