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Power redefined, Part 2
Message for June 25, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Matthew 10:24-39Power redefined: Part 2“Those who find their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sakewill find it.” One of our president’s favorite insults is “loser.” “What a loser!” he sayswith contempt. He expresses the sentiments of many, I…
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Power redefined: Part 1
Message for June 18, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Romans 5:1-8Power redefined: Part 1As a society we seem to be obsessed with power. We want it! We gotta have it!We have to protect our interests and make sure we aren’t being taken advantage of. Onthis Father’s Day perhaps it is appropriate to think…
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Come, Holy Spirit!
Message for Pentecost, June 4, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: Acts 2:1-18Come, Holy Spirit!Last week we left the gathered disciples in transition. They were huddled in anupper room, praying and waiting. Jesus, their leader, their risen Savior, had just left themin a very dramatic way – he was lifted up to heaven and…
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In transition
Message for May 28, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: John 17:1-11 and Acts 1:1-14In transitionOur biblical passages this morning are all about transition. In John, Jesus hasbeen talking with his disciples about what’s coming, about what he and they must gothrough. This is difficult stuff for them to hear. As we pick up…
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Sharing our stories
Message for May 21, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: Acts 17:22-28Sharing our storiesLast Sunday during Sunday School Jeff Bontrager asked us to think about how wecan share the story of our congregation, Glennon Heights Mennonite Church. We dohave a story to share. It’s the story of who we are as a group of…
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Mothering God
Reflections for Mother’s Day, May 14, 2017Betsy Headrick McCraeGlennon Heights Mennonite ChurchMothering GodThe Bible was written a very long time ago. Things were different then. That’sno surprise. But it’s something that we need to take into account as we continue to readand study the Bible and listen for the Spirit’s leading.The Bible was written in…
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It’s Complicated
Message for Sunday, May 7, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: 1 Peter 2:1-5, 9-25It’s complicatedContrary to what you see on your bulletin covers this morning – “With gladnessand simplicity” – I’m here to tell you that sometimes reading the Bible – like all of life –is not simple. In fact, it’s complicated. That’s…
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The love of God
Message for Easter Sunday, April 16, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passages: Matthew 28:1-10 and John 1:1-5The love of God“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word wasGod. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, andwithout him not one thing…
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We Wait
Message for the fifth Sunday of Lent, April 2, 2017Glennon Heights Mennonite ChurchBetsy Headrick McCraeScripture passage: John 11:1-44We waitIt’s hard to wait. Even at the best of times. But it’s especially hard to wait whenthings are difficult, when you’re feeling awful, when you don’t know where to turn, whenyou just want things to be made…
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Sticking with us anyway
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…