Message for the First Sunday of Lent, February 22, 2015Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: Genesis 9: 8-17Sticking with us anywayThe story of Noah and the flood has always captured our imagination. It’s one welearn when we are very little. For instance, our daughter decorated the nursery for ourgrandson with an ark and animals […]
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Message for the first Sunday of Lent, March 5, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7 and Matthew 4:1-11We hungerThere was trouble even in paradise. The tree of the knowledge of good and evilgrew there along with all the other trees. It was part of the package. God knew this.God knew that
Message for February 19, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Matthew 5:38-48 and 1 Corinthians 3:10-11Our foundation“No one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; thatfoundation is Jesus Christ.” These words of the Apostle Paul were foundational for ourAnabaptist ancestors. Menno Simons used this verse as his motto. In
Reflections for Sunday, February 8, 2015Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: Isaiah 40:21-31What do you know? What have you heard?Before I share a few thoughts with you this morning, I need to give you a headsup. This is going to be an interactive morning; I’m going to ask you to share yourthoughts as well.
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Message for April 15, 2018Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Ephesians 5:15-21 and 6:10-17The household of God, part #2Bruce and I are very house-conscious these days. This past week a photographercame to take pictures of our house, our condo, for the realtor to put up on a website.Tomorrow the realtor will come over to
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Message for April 8, 2018Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Ephesians 2:13-22 and 3:14-19The household of God, part #1Well, friends, our time together is growing short. Two weeks from today will bemy last Sunday with you as your pastor. How will we spend our final weeks together?We will spend them doing what we do
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Message for Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: John 20:1-18Nothing between usOur Lenten theme these past weeks has been “Between Me (God) and You.”We’ve talked about barriers – those things, often of our own making – that come betweenus and God. We talked about covenant – God’s promise to stay
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Message for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 18, 2018Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Jeremiah 31:31-34 and John 12:20-26Knowing JesusBruce and I spent last week in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, learning about trauma andresponses to trauma. We took the Eastern Mennonite University STAR training. STARstands for Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience. We did this
Message for the Third Sunday of Lent, March 4, 2018Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Exodus 20:1-17 and Psalm 19:7-10The space betweenIt’s hard for us to hear the Ten Commandments without feeling scolded. After all,they are presented in the negative and are very direct: “Thou shalt not!” There seems tobe no room for discussion.
Message for the First Sunday of Lent, February 18, 2018Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: Genesis 9: 8-17God so loved the worldGod created the world – night and day, the sea and the dry land, the sky, theplants and animals and, finally, human beings, male and female God created us. God waspleased with this
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