Archive for March 2013

Risen Christ, help me to faithfully travel along my road in the vast expanse of humanity. Above all, help me recognize you in the faces of others so that I may know more fully the way and the truth and the life revealed in your love. Amen.

In my Palm Sunday sermon, posted on the PVCC website thanks to Julie Lane, I offer two interpretations of Good Friday and Easter. One interpretation comes from the twelfth century. Anselm, the second Archbishop of Canterbury, created a theory of “at-one-ment” or atonement. Accordingly, sin created a separation between God and humanity. God’s sense of…

Palm Sunday March 24, 2013 Pine Valley Christian Church Rev. David Hansen Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem as a bearer of God’s grace and an ambassador of God’s love. He knew that he was living on the outer edge of risk and possibility. But he was willing to go there for the sake of…

We received a “Thank You, PVCC” from Rev. Sally C. Fahrenhold, Coordinator of Partners for Wichita, for our financial contribution of $100 and for the donation of extra food to supplement the box lunches. Partners for Wichita now serves 5,000 meals during the week in 14 different locations. And, our financial gift was increased with…

On Palm Sunday Jesus enters Jerusalem riding on a borrowed donkey. It fits a gospel pattern of transformative moments. A Samaritan woman comes to the well for water and goes home a preacher. A child breaks into the inner circle of discipleship and is welcomed. Tax collectors and debtors sit at the table together and…