This sermon, exploring Mary’s words in Luke 1:46-56, comes from the collection Weaving Wisdom: Sermons by Mennonite Women, (1983) ed. Dorothy Yoder Nyce.
The Good Shepherd
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright
Using Zacchaeus, Dr. Wright speaks to restorative Justice that we see in the narrative to illustrate rich points that every believer should consider.
Imitating the Incarnation
BB Warfield
BB Warfield exhorts us see Christ as Redeemer and example. As Christ was “led by His love for others into the world,” so ought we be oriented toward the world, for the sake of Christ and his kingdom.
Intimacies of Love
Bishop Fulton Sheen
In this specific sermon, Bishop Fulton Sheen explores how God has revealed His own intimate desire to speak to, be seen by, and reach out to the longing hearts of every human person.
Relativism Is Out. Truth Is In.
Brandon McGinley
Truth is in, and that’s good. It’s much better for Christians, and for everyone, for the terms of discourse to be made clear, rather than obscured behind the false neutrality of skepticism and relativism and tolerance. But if we try to contain truth within American political categories, just as when we try to tame Christ and his teachings, we will continue to do violence to it, and to him.
Gospel Fasting
Dan MacDonald
Dan MacDonald explains that true fasting is a fasting of selfishness and comfort, sacrificing for the sake of those who need it.
God is Speaking – But Are We Ready to Listen?
Bishop Robert Barron
We need to work to discern his call through our deafness and the noise of our culture. God is not one voice among many, but a hidden and mysterious voice that is difficult to discern even in the best of conditions. We are called to listen closely for God’s voice and to look for the modern-day Samuels.
Jesus and the Disinherited
Howard Thurman
Thurman states that the family is an even better place to find the means to build personal and spiritual dignity and understand the common dignity of others. The whole human race is the family of God and wealth, status, health did not matter to Jesus. When the Gospel of Jesus is preached to all people it becomes a vehicle for social change.
Keep Doing It
Rachel Ringenberg Miller
Rachel Ringenberg Miller, pastor of Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton, KS, offers an encouragement that the ethic of Jesus is an ongoing labor of love in the world, and that voting patterns are not the first or final word for Christian discipleship.
Building Our Commons
Father Jack Wall, Joe Boland
How might we imagine and actually each play a role in building a more woven, widely shared commons? A commons committed to solidarity and humbly receptive to repair. One that keeps human dignity front and center and sees all of life as gift. How could each of us and each of the societal sectors that touch our lives and that we touch in turn—education, medicine, business, social service, law, media, politics, the institutional church, and more—how could we and all these shift, perhaps softly in some ways, perhaps dramatically in others, to sow a better normal?