Posts by Greg Yarnell

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…

March 17, 2013 I Corinthians 11: 23-25 Rev. David Hansen Pine Valley Christian Church  A Banquet of Liberating Love  I want to begin by telling you how much I enjoy being here and being your pastor. You all really love this church and you love each other and that makes Pine Valley a good place…

PARTNERS FOR WICHITA  is thankful for our involvement in the Bags of Blessings.  We were part of the 40+ congregations and groups.  1,500 bags were made, which is a 25% increase from 2012!  The bags have been delivered to 33 helping services groups throughout Sedgwick County.

I am mindful today of my need, O God, and so I turn to you in prayer in the sanctuary of my home. When I feel overwhelmed by the difficulties of daily living, and hemmed in by fear and worry, let my conversation with you be the counterpoint to those events that cause me to…

William Sloane Coffin was a prophetic civil rights leader, a co-founder and president of SANE/FREEZE (the largest peace and justice group in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s), and a prolific writer. He wrote in Passion for the Possible, “Redemptive action is born of vision.” He elaborated, “You can’t think straight with a…