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Convención de las Iglesias Evangélicas Menonitas de Puerto Rico, Inc.
...improving social and living conditions in Puerto Rico. This eventually led to the formation of the Puerto Rican Mennonite Church Convention, which is now ...rto Rican leadership and pastoral workers. The last Mennonite missionaries to minister in Puerto Rico left in 1986. The conference still has ties with No

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Lamentations
...rael. The songs were originally sung, and they were passed from generation to generation as oral compositions before they were written down in the form i ...unities. They may think that they followed all the rules or at least tried to, but now the rules themselves are changing. They may wonder where God is, i

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Abortion (Mennonite Church, 1975)
...hat persons are created in God's image, that human life is a gift from God to be held in high esteem, and that God's interest in individuals begins befor ...al and ethical erosion in our society we need to accept our responsibility to recognize and protect the sanctity of human life.

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1 Corinthians
...us in Corinth. The issues that are addressed in this letter have continued to churn in Christian churches throughout subsequent history: *division over loyalty to different leaders<br>

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Beachy Amish Mennonite Fellowships, Belize
...small tablecloth, with plants and flowers. Theresa Miller makes an effort to keep her house clean and homelike. Breakfast for the Millers consists of mi ...clothes are drying Theresa walks to her flowerbeds to remove the weeds and to water the flowers and plants. Ryan comes home for a warm lunch at noon.

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Andreas Wurtz
...e knew in his heart that the religion he practiced was false and he needed to change. ...father and mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name’s sake, will get back a hundred times as much and inherit eternal life.”

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Strategies for Interpreting Problematic Texts (in Joel/Obadiah/Micah)
...problems inherent in Obadiah’s portrayal of the Edomites (see Introduction to Obadiah: “The Challenge of Reading Obadiah as Christian Scripture”). ...tties: 410–11). Many Christians still appeal to patriarchal biblical texts to justify contemporary patriarchal practices. Because of how the Bible shapes

23 KB (3,732 words) - 23:01, 6 December 2022
Statement on Abortion (Mennonite Church USA, 2003)
...been made for relationship with God, to live in peace with each other, and to take care of the rest of creation."1 (Article VI, Confession of Faith in a ...God to be valued and protected. We oppose abortion because it runs counter to biblical principles.

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The Way of Peace (General Conference Mennonite Church, 1971)
...n. "We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Romans 5 :1) . "To have your mind controlled by what the Spirit wants will result in life and To follow this way of peace is to discover joy and fulfillment in life. Jesus said, "I have come in order tha

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Ruth
...2) characterized Ruth as one of the most beautiful short stories handed on to us in all epic and idyllic literature. The pastoral scene in the small vill Likely some of Ruth’s power to charm comes from its idyllic air. It reads as a story without a villain, li

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1 Peter
...to suffer and submit rather than to retaliate. The strategy is to respond to evil with blessing (3:9). ...conventional method of repaying evil with more violence. This is still put to the test in various areas of the world where Christians are marginalized an

28 KB (4,302 words) - 16:50, 13 January 2024
Esther
...ing the king himself. Haman, a royal courtier, is controlled by the desire to be second in command in the empire. This obsession becomes catastrophic for ...ge. Too often those as well as other conflicts lead to violence that seeks to solve the problem by destroying the other.

45 KB (7,311 words) - 03:42, 4 August 2023
Amos
...ont Israel with her shortcomings and call for a reorientation of life, all to no avail (4:6-11; 5:4, 14-15, 24). Hence, Israelite society stands under ha ...phetic voices that God may be using to convict us of the particular routes to judgment that we may be following.

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Anabaptism Sunday School Curriculum for Youth
...nnab/MYF/anabaptism.html. She has given her permission for these resources to be shared here. There is also a Czech translation of the curriculum availab ...up does not know the story of the beginnings of Anabaptism, you might wish to add a session between session one and two in which you watch selected clips

49 KB (8,636 words) - 18:21, 29 November 2016
Hosea
...ather than the God of the Bible. (For an analysis of how the mall has come to represent sacred space and shopping a religious ritual, see Smith: 19–27) ...munity. By undermining all other sources of authority, Hosea challenges us to place our fundamental trust in God, not in lesser gods like the capitalist

38 KB (5,943 words) - 17:47, 4 August 2023
The Relation of the Old and New Covenants in Pilgram Marpeck’s Theology
...ey accepted it as God’s revelation and struggled (not always successfully) to reconcile its differences with the New. ...01 f.</ref> Baptism, the oath, bearing of arms, and other issues continued to divide the Anabaptists and Reformers because the Old Testament was viewed d

45 KB (7,523 words) - 02:46, 31 August 2022
Justice and the Christian Witness (General Conference Mennonite Church, Mennonite Church, 1983)
...ite Church]] began collaboration on a statement on justice to be presented to the historic first joint session of the two denominations in August 1983 at ...mension of justice. A committee began work and submitted a progress report to the 1979 General Assembly at Waterloo, Ontario.

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Jonah
...edience and responsiveness. Indeed, many have thought of Jonah as included to provide a negative example. ...im before you as a model for repentance. Sin not; but if you do, take heed to repent of it like Jonah.” Unfortunately for this sermon, the narrative do

35 KB (5,706 words) - 19:32, 4 August 2023
Acts
...sus” (17:6-7, author's translation throughout). More than simply a witness to historical events and figures, Acts offers contemporary disciples with a fo ...the traditional attribution to Luke, and there are some compelling reasons to see the author as Paul’s companion (hereafter designated as Luke; Faw 199

49 KB (7,494 words) - 17:41, 2 April 2024
Romans
...action of the God who saves, than about specifying what humans will or can get.

74 KB (11,015 words) - 02:45, 5 October 2023