Towards Sunday
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Advent 2021
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Not the Jesus We Want
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Interactions with Jesus
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Awe Yeah
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Who Are We
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Easter 2021
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Lent 2021
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Epiphany 2021
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Advent 2020
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Unity in the Community
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Jesus’ Emotions, (really?)
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Pentecost 2020
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Easter 2020
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Lent 2020
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Epiphany 2020
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Advent 2019
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: A Community Rooted in Christ
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: Love
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: The Holy Spirit
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke 19:1-10 ...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms contains several "Psalms of Asaph," which contain his name at the beginning of the psalm. These are Psalms 50 and 73—83....
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel and Oholiab. In the book of Exodus God gives great details about how the tabernacle and all of its furnishings...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul to Timothy in which Paul is encouraging Timothy to keep the seed of faith that was planted in him growing. Paul’s...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and corruption. And if that wasn’t enough, what if I told you this story was located in the book of Numbers? If...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until we begin our Lent observance in late February. This week will look at the life of Josiah. King Josiah. ...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the Magi, but what about you? Any epiphanies for you this Holiday season? At our home we bump into the everyday...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow the ways of Jesus and the Holy Spirit begins the work of transformation, then all that is left is living the good life…...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two scriptures that guided us on this Advent journey… Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved. Psalm 80:3...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? Have you had any Christmas parties yet, with family, or at work, or with friends? This week is our...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the midst of suffering. This week we will be looking at encouragement and one way we encourage each other is through...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to look ahead at what we can look forward to. But it takes preparation. Prepare the way of the Lord is our theme...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near. The two verses that are the focal point of this theme are... Psalm 80:3... Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that...
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes war, refugees, oppression, among other things. Sounds like it could be a story from the present. It seems...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me thinking about women using their gifts to serve the church. I must confess, I never understood the reluctance to...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil it, but my thoughts this week are times when Jesus showed up at an unexpected location and did some Jesus type...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we are only caretakers of what we have been blessed with? Are we defined by what we have or don’t have? Do we, as...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a familiar story to you. If so, what thoughts, feelings, and emotions stir in you as you think about the...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden Showalter for the next six weeks. Linden will be sharing with us a story from our Anabaptist tradition, and we will look at...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 13 “Enter through the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is easy that leads to...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this Sunday, Sept. 25th. We are excited to have Heidi Payne sharing with us this weekend. The theme for the weekend is...
Sermon Series: The Way of Jesus
June 20, 2021 – Interactions with Jesus: Zacchaeus
by Dustin Dawe | June 15, 2021 | Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we continue with our series, Interactions with Jesus. We find ourselves in Luke 19… Luke...
February 12, 2023 – “Asaph”
by Dustin Dawe | February 7, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week as we continue our series on lesser known personalities in the Bible, we are going to take a look at, Asaph. The book of Psalms...
“Who… Bezalel and Oholiab?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 31, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Bezalel and Oholiab… ever heard of them? Sometimes I wonder why we have the story of Samson in children’s bibles and not the story of Bezalel...
“Who… Oneiphorus?”
by Joyce Lehman | January 28, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
“Against All Odds: Encouraging Good News” This reference to the little known character of Onesiphorus comes to us in the midst of a letter from Paul...
January 22, 2023 – “Who…. Balaam”
by Dustin Dawe | January 17, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What if I told you that this week’s scripture involves a magician, a talking donkey, and an angel. This story is full of greed, betrayal, and...
January 15, 2023 – “Who…. Josiah?”
by Dustin Dawe | January 10, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
With Epiphany in the rear-view mirror and Lent coming to us in 7 weeks, we are going to look at a few lesser know personalities in the Bible until...
January 8, 2023 – “Epiphany, The Manifold Wisdom of God Be Made Known”
by Dustin Dawe | January 3, 2023 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Epiphany, one of the definitions of Epiphany is… an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure. That is certainly accurate for the...
January 1, 2023 – “He Comes to Us in All our Distress”
by Dustin Dawe | December 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy New Year! We have journeyed toward restoration this Advent and Christmas season, so all is well, right. I mean once we decide to follow...
December 25, 2022 – Christmas Day, “Sing for Joy!”
by Dustin Dawe | December 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Christmas is upon us! How has this season of Advent been for you? We had a theme of; Restoration is near. There were two...
December 18, 2022 – Advent #4 – “Do Not Be Afraid”
by Dustin Dawe | December 13, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
How have you been observing Advent this year? Have you started your Christmas celebrations yet? Do you have a favorite Christmas movie? ...
December 11, 2022 – Advent #3 – “Tell What You Hear and See”
by Dustin Dawe | December 6, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This third Sunday of Advent as we are centering our thoughts around Restoration, we will be focusing on scriptures about hope and patience in the...
December 4, 2022 – Advent #2 – “Prepare the Way of the Lord”
by Dustin Dawe | November 29, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Here we are, heading into the second week of Advent! This week we have some classic scriptures in front of us, scriptures that invite us to...
November 27, 2022 – Advent #1 – “Restoration is Near, Watch the Day is Almost Here”
by Dustin Dawe | November 22, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving! This Sunday we will begin our Advent journey. Our Advent theme this year is… This year's Advent theme is, Restoration is Near....
November 20, 2022 – Anabaptist History, From Ukraine to Paraguay: A Moving Story of “Russian” Mennonites
by Dustin Dawe | November 15, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday will conclude our Anabaptist history series. Linden will have another interesting story for us. Our story this week includes...
November 13, 2022 – Anabaptist History, Betsy Shank Showalter; Not Your Ordinary 5G Grandma
by Dustin Dawe | November 8, 2022 | I'm Engaged | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist history. I don’t want to spoil our story this Sunday, but this week’s story has me...
November 6, 2022 – Anabaptist History, What is This Place
by Dustin Dawe | November 1, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing our series on Anabaptist History. What story does Linden have in store for us this week? I don’t want to spoil...
October 30, 2022 – Anabaptist History, The Anabaptist Waterfall: Beauty, Simplicity, Practical Stewardship, and a Theology Lived
by Dustin Dawe | October 25, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
What does it mean to live generously? What about the stuff we have? Do we view those things as our own or do we have the mindset that we...
October 23, 2022 – Anabaptist History
by Dustin Dawe | October 18, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we are continuing in our Anabaptist history series. We will be looking at an Anabaptist icon… Dirk Willems. This might be a...
October 16, 2022 – “Anabaptist History, The Word of God is Solid Ground: the Anabaptists’ Love of Scripture”
by Dustin Dawe | October 11, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This week we will begin a new Sunday series on Anabaptist History and what it means for us today. I am excited to be collaborating with Linden...
October 2, 2022 – “Sermon on the Mount… The Narrow Gate”
by Dustin Dawe | September 27, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will begin the conclusion of our Sermon on the Mount series. Our passage this week is… Matthew 7:13-23 New Revised...
“Listening: to God, to one another, God listens to us”
by Dustin Dawe | September 20, 2022 | I'm Engaged, Towards Sunday | 0 Comments
This Sunday we will be at Cove Valley Camp as a part of our annual church retreat. There will be no services held at Marion Mennonite Church this...
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