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I Believe

I was struck by the clarity of IGO’s Brief Statement of Mennonite Doctrine. As Christians living in this world of swirling ideas and competing worldviews it is not always easy to define quickly what we believe based on our understanding of the Bible and God’s will for human beings. Yes, we can say, “I [...]

Dead To Sin, Alive Unto God – Audio Sermon

Today’s message by Ron Bontrager preached at New Hope Mennonite church was taken from Romans 6-8.
Download to your computer by right clicking on the link below and choosing “Save As…”
2007-09-23 – 12.5MB

The New Conservatives

Melvin Lehman the director of Faith Builders Educational Programs has written an excellent article concerning today’s conservative young Christians; especially those with Anabaptist-like beliefs. It is very insightful and accurately portrays my generation. I highly recommend it.
You can download the PDF at:
http://www.fbep.org/downloads/The%20New%20Conservatives_MBL.pdf

Acceptance to YBS in PA

Well, today I got an email saying I’ve been accepted at this year’s Youth Bible School. I’m pretty excited about going, since I haven’t been back East for over 2 years now and I’ve never been to YBS at Ephrata Christian Fellowship. HB from our church went last year, and came back with glowing reports [...]

The Default

I was teaching a 76 year old man yesterday how to use his iMac computer and he asked me a very good question.
“What does the word ‘default’ mean?”
I had to think for a second, because even though I’m always setting defaults in the BIOS or resetting IE to defaults, I didn’t pay much attention to [...]