Title: The Crumbs Are Enough Texts: 1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31 Author: Meghan Florian Date: Sept 26, 2010 “There is great gain in godliness combined with contentment.” Paul begins with the need to be content – we brought nothing into this world, he writes, and we take nothing out of it. This passage ends with [...]

Title: Faithful witnesses Date: September 19, 2010 Texts: Isa 43:6-12, Isa 62:1-3, Rev 2:12-17 Author: Isaac Villegas “I know where you live—where Satan has his throne” (Rev 2:13). With those ominous words, Jesus addresses the church in Pergamum at the beginning of the book of Revelation. “I know where you live—where Satan has his throne.” [...]

Isaac reflects on his visit with the people at First Mennonite Church of San Francisco: In San Francisco the Mennonites assemble as Christ’s body within the house of Israel. Gentiles have become children of God, wrote theologian Karl Barth in 1949, “only as those chosen with [the Jews]; as guests in their house.” For First [...]

Title: Slaves of Christ Texts: Philemon 1-21 Date: Sept 5, 2010 Author: Chris Gooding After I graduated from college, I spent a year living in Bombay, India. I moved there to work for a non-profit known as International Justice Mission. IJM helps people with a variety of legal issues worldwide, but what they are best [...]