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April 5, 2026 – Holy Week – Easter Sunday

by Dustin Dawe | March 31, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Typically, the Toward’s Sunday email is to get us thinking about our time together on Sunday. But not this week. This week is Holy Week! There is a lot to think about before Sunday. This week is a time where we gather to remember what once...

March 29, 2026 – Palm Sunday

by Dustin Dawe | March 24, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This Sunday is Palm Sunday. Our theme for this Lenten season is Dwelling in Dissonance. Over the past five weeks I have tried to look at our scriptures with a focus on the dissonance. So, this week, as I look at the triumphal entry, it is certainly a significant...

March 22, 2026, Lent 5 – “Dwelling in Dissonance… Complicity and Innocence”

by Dustin Dawe | March 17, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Where is the dissonance in your life? Is it in family dynamics? Is it in workplace relationships? Is it in our political system? Is it in current world events? Is there any in your spiritual journey? We can experience plenty of dissonance in our scripture for this...

March 15, 2026 – Lent 4 – “Dwelling in Dissonance…Submission and Power”

by Dustin Dawe | March 10, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Do you like to watch movies? Sometimes the best parts of a movie are the iconic quotes that make it into our everyday conversations. Here are a few of my favorite movie quotes, I wonder if you recognize what movie they came from…...

March 8, 2026 – “Lent 3: Dwelling in Dissonance…Standing Up and Standing Back”

by Dustin Dawe | March 3, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This Sunday marks the half-way point of our Lent journey. How is your Lent journey going? Have you felt any dissonance? What is making you uncomfortable these days? In this week’s scripture, we read about Jesus’ arrest and Peter’s denials (John 18:12-27). ...

March 1, 2026 – Lent 2 – “Dwelling in Dissonance…Obvious and Hidden”

by Dustin Dawe | February 24, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This week as we continue our observance of Lent, we find ourselves in John chapter 13. Ms. Jackie introduced this story to our children last week. Did you catch the look on the children’s faces when Ms. Jackie asked who wanted to have their feet...

February 22, 2026 – Lent 1 – “Dwelling in Dissonance…Love and Grief, Glory and Belief”

by Dustin Dawe | February 17, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Lent begins this week, are you ready? Did you grow up observing Lent? Anabaptists have an interesting connection with Lent. Historically, Anabaptists may have been reluctant to participate in Lent. Maybe because whilethis practice appears to have...

February 15, 2026 – “Community Living…Start Small”

by Dustin Dawe | February 10, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Happy Tuesday church family, This week we will be concluding our series on community as the season of Lent is right around the corner. In Romans chapter twelve, the local church is described as an interdependent body. When we gather together to worship, we...

February 8, 2026 – “Community Living….Contentment”

by Dustin Dawe | February 3, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

The Bible is full of stories of people seeking contentment. Scriptures on contentment are aplenty and there are examples of men and women who find contentment in a relationship with God. Which ones come to mind? The psalmists and Paul had a lot to say...

February 1, 2026 – “Community Living… Forgiveness and Reconciliation”

by Dustin Dawe | January 27, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Happy Tuesday Marion Church Family, This week as we continue our series on community and we will be taking a look at forgiveness and reconciliation. It is important to recognize that forgiveness and reconciliation are not the same. They’re related, they’re...

January 25, 2026 – “Community…Committed to the Truth in Love”

by Dustin Dawe | January 20, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

A collection of the thoughts running through my mind early this week. This past Saturday at the Marion men’s breakfast, while we sat around the table eating a delicious breakfast prepared by Uncle Leonard and Mahlon, Mahlon asked a question… “If Jesus were...

January 18, 2026 – “Community, In or Out?”

by Dustin Dawe | January 13, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This week as we continue looking at community, I have questions… Are we committed to community? Do we think our church family as having an inward focus? Making disciples is the focus. We strive to make our Sunday morning time cozy and comfortable. We...

January 11, 2026 – “Our God is All About Community”

by Dustin Dawe | January 6, 2026 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This Sunday we will begin a new series on community. The series will run for six weeks until Lent starts. The idea of a series on community came to me after the ministry team and church board had a retreat in the fall. It seems like folks at Marion...

January 4, 2026 – Epiphany, “Be Amazed: Come and See”

by Dustin Dawe | December 30, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

2026 is coming! Do you have any New Year’s Eve or New Year’s celebrations? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Is January 1 an opportunity for a fresh start, to break a bad habit or start a good habit? My mom and dad always ate pork and sauerkraut on New...

December 28, 2025 – “Be Amazed…God Among Us”

by Dustin Dawe | December 23, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Christmas is this week Marion Church Family! Are giving and receiving gifts a part of your Christmas celebration? Each year, Twila and I pick out an ornament for Jonathan and Abigail that tries to capture something about that year. We usually give the kids their...

December 21, 2025 – Advent 4 – “Be Amazed…Love Comes Down”

by Dustin Dawe | December 16, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This week as we are approaching the fourth Sunday of Advent, we are getting closer and closer to the arrival of baby Jesus… Our gospel reading and our focus on our time together on Sunday is John 1:1-18. John's Gospel doesn't speak of the manger and...

December 14, 2025 – Advent 3 – “Be Amazed….Joy in the Desert”

by Dustin Dawe | December 9, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

How is your Advent season going so far? What helps you in the participation of Advent? What do you read, listen to, or do differently during these four weeks of Advent, to help you wait, to anticipate, to slow down and Be Amazed? Each year, Twila and I talk...

December 7, 2025 – Advent 2 – “Be Amazed…Peace in the Valley of Dry Bones”

by Dustin Dawe | December 2, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Prepare to BE AMAZED! As we continue in our Advent series, this Sunday we will be invited to BE Amazed; Peace in the valley of dry bones. Our scripture takes us to the time that the southern kingdom of Judah is in exile in Babylon, in the 500s BC. They were...

November 30, 2025 – Advent I – “Be Amazed, Hope in the Furnace”

by Dustin Dawe | November 25, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

This Sunday we will begin our observance of Advent. Four weeks of hope, peace, joy, and love. This Advent season our theme is… Be Amazed, where we will look at some AMAZING stories in the Bible. This week, as we think about, Hope in the Furnace, we...

November 23, 2025 – “The One Anothers….Teach One Another”

by Dustin Dawe | November 18, 2025 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments

Good day Marion Church Family! This Sunday will be the last message in our One Another series. We will be looking at the invitation to… teach one another. As I was reading and doing some research for our last message in this series, I came across a blog...