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Services and special presentations from
Houston Mennonite Church in Houston, Texas.

Jul 27, 2021

Pastor Purnell's visit to Peace Camp causes her to muse over what it means for us to go beyond peace.

Scripture Readings (The Message)

Micah 4:1-5

Hymn:

Like The Murmur of The Dove's Song (VT56)

Text: Carl P. Daw, Jr. / Music: Peter Cutts

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Jul 19, 2021

"What matters is not how we define God but how God defines us. God asks that we do what he, or she, or they, tell us to do with our lives and our gifts no matter which worldly societies believe we are less-than, believe we shouldn't speak, believe we are not worth listening to. [...] What matters is hewing to what God...


Sermon Transcript: Names of God - 7-18-21

Jul 19, 2021

NAMES OF GOD

There’s an ancient apophatic treatise called “The Cloud of Unknowing,” [SLIDE 1] that’s all about how difficult it is to describe the unknowable mystery of God, and that’s how I’ve felt about my task today. How can we describe the Alpha and the Omega, that which exists beyond all human...



July 4, 2021 Sermon: An Invitation to Love

Jul 5, 2021

Matthew 11:16-19

“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’; the Son of...