Transformed | Inspired | Called

What Idols?

- by Ken Driedger

As broken people in a broken world, all of us – even churches – are susceptible to making good gifts into false gods. Thankfully, there is grace and restoration in Jesus. For people who follow Jesus, that has to be the main thing. 

Transformed. Inspired. Called: An MCEC Devotional

Easter People Living in a Good Friday World

- by Doug Amstutz

Recently I ran across the phrase that Christians are an Easter people living in a Good Friday world. That phrase stuck with me. I liked it. We certainly know what a Good Friday world means. A world of darkness and violence and injustice.

Transformed. Inspired. Called: An MCEC Devotional

Paying Attention to What Matters

- by Stephen Cox

I don’t know about you, but it’s pretty rare that I find myself worshiping alongside 10,000 pastors and church leaders.

But that’s exactly what happened recently at the Exponential Conference in Orlando, Florida. It was, in many ways, a fish-out-of-water experience for me. Big, loud, high energy. Very different from the quieter, grounded rhythms many of us are used to in our Mennonite context.

Transformed. Inspired. Called: An MCEC Devotional

You Are the Salt of the Earth, O People

- by Annika Krause

Recently I was doing the children’s story at my church, and I was trying to explain why Jesus calls us to be the salt of the earth in Matthew 5:13. In the minds of most people salt is ordinary, basic, and boring. I mean, sure, salt makes foods taste better, and maybe in an indirect way Jesus is telling us our job is to make the world a more palatable place, but that doesn’t quite hit the mark.

Transformed. Inspired. Called: An MCEC Devotional