Comments for Emmanuel Mennonite Church http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com The digital resource for our church. Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:46:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on RAISING THE ROOF by Larry Pray http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2011/10/04/raising-the-roof/comment-page-1/#comment-2704 Larry Pray Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:46:59 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=1121#comment-2704 Matthew, Just discovered your church's website, and enjoyed reading through your blog. You are a good writer. The sermon roundtable also sounds good. When I walk by your church I often wonder what is happening. Blessings to you, Larry Matthew,

Just discovered your church’s website, and enjoyed reading through your blog. You are a good writer. The sermon roundtable also sounds good. When I walk by your church I often wonder what is happening. Blessings to you, Larry

]]> Comment on NO ONE WISE ENOUGH? by mswora http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2010/09/27/no-one-wise-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-842 mswora Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:58:52 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=772#comment-842 Thank you for your helpful, informative reply. Wow. And thanks for the indication that someone is actually reading some of these posts, even the sermons! And I have been inspired by the warmth, zeal and example of the Moravian Church, ever since, as a young Buckeye in Junior High, I learned about the Moravian Christian villages along the Tuscawrawras River, Gnadenhutten and Schoenbrun, and the martyrdom of the Delaware Indian Christians there. If America needs a sacred shrine comparable to Santiago da Campostela in Spain or Mecca in Saudi Arabia, I would suggest the chapel and monument at Gnadenhutten: the America that could have been. "Our Lamb has conquered; let us follow." Thank you for your helpful, informative reply. Wow. And thanks for the indication that someone is actually reading some of these posts, even the sermons! And I have been inspired by the warmth, zeal and example of the Moravian Church, ever since, as a young Buckeye in Junior High, I learned about the Moravian Christian villages along the Tuscawrawras River, Gnadenhutten and Schoenbrun, and the martyrdom of the Delaware Indian Christians there. If America needs a sacred shrine comparable to Santiago da Campostela in Spain or Mecca in Saudi Arabia, I would suggest the chapel and monument at Gnadenhutten: the America that could have been. “Our Lamb has conquered; let us follow.”

]]> Comment on NO ONE WISE ENOUGH? by Al Reynolds http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2010/09/27/no-one-wise-enough/comment-page-1/#comment-834 Al Reynolds Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:39:41 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=772#comment-834 Thank you for your comment on our Moravian brothers and sisters who were involved in cooling down the conflict with Sandinistas in eastern Nicaragua. As is so often true, it was tragically complex with many church members firmly adhering to one side or the other. With much effort, much prayer, and a whole lot of gritting of teeth the fires of anger were cooled. The last time I checked several of our Moravians occupied positions in the Government of Nicaragua. The light overcomes the darkness. Sometimes you and I must be the light. Thank you for your comment on our Moravian brothers and sisters who were involved in cooling down the conflict with Sandinistas in eastern Nicaragua. As is so often true, it was tragically complex with many church members firmly adhering to one side or the other. With much effort, much prayer, and a whole lot of gritting of teeth the fires of anger were cooled. The last time I checked several of our Moravians occupied positions in the Government of Nicaragua. The light overcomes the darkness.

Sometimes you and I must be the light.

]]> Comment on MORE THOUGHTS FROM VISITING THE VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL by margaret mironowicz http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2010/04/24/more-thoughts-from-visiting-the-vietnam-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-397 margaret mironowicz Sun, 25 Apr 2010 08:36:38 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=598#comment-397 Deep thoughts such as this on a visit to the Vietnam War Memorial are so timely, so stirring, that I hope many find their way to reading them. Deep thoughts such as this on a visit to the Vietnam War Memorial are so timely, so stirring, that I hope many find their way to reading them.

]]> Comment on MORE THOUGHTS FROM VISITING THE VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL by Chas http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2010/04/24/more-thoughts-from-visiting-the-vietnam-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-395 Chas Sun, 25 Apr 2010 03:35:53 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=598#comment-395 This post reminded me of quote from President Eisenhower I recently discovered: "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron." Address "The Chance for Peace" Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53 This post reminded me of quote from President Eisenhower I recently discovered: “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.” Address “The Chance for Peace” Delivered Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 4/16/53

]]> Comment on THOUGHTS FROM A VISIT TO THE VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL by Maria http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2010/04/23/thoughts-from-a-visit-to-the-vietnam-war-memorial/comment-page-1/#comment-385 Maria Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:59:01 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=596#comment-385 Mathew, Beautiful. You might be interested to know that there is a practice among veterans of all times and wars, to say, when they meet a Vietnam vet, "welcome home." Make of that what you will. Maria Mathew,

Beautiful. You might be interested to know that there is a practice among veterans of all times and wars, to say, when they meet a Vietnam vet, “welcome home.”

Make of that what you will.

Maria

]]> Comment on SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CLERGY ABUSE SCANDAL by Alphonse Bernard http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2010/04/06/some-thoughts-on-the-clergy-abuse-scandal/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Alphonse Bernard Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:31:50 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=589#comment-376 A warm and prayerful hello from India. As a believing and practising Catholic, I love your comments. Surely, they who have ears to hear will hear what you say. Each failing, be it personal or communitarian, is a call to fall into the arms of the Father. I wish my Church listens to it, carefully and prayerfully. Now more than ever, I am searching great women and men to rise from the womb of the Church to cleanse the filth. Keep lifting us in your prayers. Affection. A Bernard. A warm and prayerful hello from India.
As a believing and practising Catholic, I love your comments. Surely, they who have ears to hear will hear what you say. Each failing, be it personal or communitarian, is a call to fall into the arms of the Father. I wish my Church listens to it, carefully and prayerfully. Now more than ever, I am searching great women and men to rise from the womb of the Church to cleanse the filth.
Keep lifting us in your prayers. Affection. A Bernard.

]]> Comment on ROCK AND ROLL MENNONITES, PINK MENNOS, AND MORE…. by Forrest Moyer http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2009/07/20/rock-and-roll-mennonites-pink-mennos-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Forrest Moyer Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:02:53 +0000 http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/?p=381#comment-24 Matthew, Thanks for this reflection on your experience at Convention. As a member of Pink Menno and a 27-year-old gay member of a Mennonite congregation, I appreciate your thoughts, not because I necessarily agree with them, but because they challenge me in an invitational, conversational way. I too hope for a "greater, deeper truth" than any one agenda. Matthew,
Thanks for this reflection on your experience at Convention. As a member of Pink Menno and a 27-year-old gay member of a Mennonite congregation, I appreciate your thoughts, not because I necessarily agree with them, but because they challenge me in an invitational, conversational way. I too hope for a “greater, deeper truth” than any one agenda.

]]> Comment on OF BOUNDARIES AND BLESSINGS by Wally DiPietro http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2009/04/06/of-boundaries-and-blessings/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Wally DiPietro Sat, 30 May 2009 00:52:55 +0000 http://www.emmanuel-menno.com/?p=189#comment-20 Yes, God has given us boundaries and many good people find themselves outside those boundaries, but that does not mean that we cease to cry out and serve as God's people are called to do. The Old Testament is a showcase of what happens when we compromise God's boundaries. According to the state marriage is a legal contract. The state recognizes the value of the family unit and provides regulations which benefit those in a marriage union. For the Christian, marriage is much more that merely a legal contract. Marriage is filled with ceremony, symbols, tradition and is even considered sanctified. It is an affirmation of life itself. For the Christian, human life is sacred, made in the image of God. If human life is sacred then the creative act which is the origin of human life, must also be sacred. All human beings have their origin in the heterosexual union. No human beings have their origin in the homosexual union. Therefore, only heterosexual marriage can be considered as sacred. The state has the right to extend legal contracts, and to offer varies rights and responsibilities with these contracts. The state may issue "legal unions" for homosexuals and allow them rights similar to heterosexuals. But that doesn't make it marriage. Marriage is the historic domicile of the church. Marriage can only be sanctified if it is between a man and a woman. Yes, God has given us boundaries and many good people find themselves outside those boundaries, but that does not mean that we cease to cry out and serve as God’s people are called to do. The Old Testament is a showcase of what happens when we compromise God’s boundaries.

According to the state marriage is a legal contract. The state recognizes the value of the family unit and provides regulations which benefit those in a marriage union.

For the Christian, marriage is much more that merely a legal contract. Marriage is filled with ceremony, symbols, tradition and is even considered sanctified. It is an affirmation of life itself. For the Christian, human life is sacred, made in the image of God. If human life is sacred then the creative act which is the origin of human life, must also be sacred. All human beings have their origin in the heterosexual union. No human beings have their origin in the homosexual union. Therefore, only heterosexual marriage can be considered as sacred.

The state has the right to extend legal contracts, and to offer varies rights and responsibilities with these contracts. The state may issue “legal unions” for homosexuals and allow them rights similar to heterosexuals. But that doesn’t make it marriage. Marriage is the historic domicile of the church. Marriage can only be sanctified if it is between a man and a woman.

]]> Comment on ARE WE UNINDICTED CO-CONSPIRATORS WITH OSAMA BIN LADEN? by Mark Van Steenwyk http://www.emmanuelmennonitechurch.com/2008/01/07/are-we-unindicted-co-conspirators-with-osama-bin-laden/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Mark Van Steenwyk Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:42:01 +0000 http://www.emmanuel-menno.com/2008/01/07/are-we-unindicted-co-conspirators-with-osama-bin-laden/#comment-2 Excellent post. I didn't know that Gibbons criticized the early church's nonviolence. Excellent post. I didn’t know that Gibbons criticized the early church’s nonviolence.

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