Category: Teachings
-
Living Well With Little or Much: Lessons From Poverty and Plenty — Gary Shrock
Gary Shrock reflects on learning contentment and trust in God through poverty, serious illness, financial pressure, and later business growth, explaining how money can become greed, pride, or power, but can also be managed with humility, generosity, and accountability to God.
-
Purity in an Unholy World — Ephraim Renno
Ephraim Renno teaches about pursuing purity in an unholy world, especially freedom from sexual sin and pornography. He explains how addiction can form through secrecy, shame, and isolation, while pointing listeners toward wholehearted commitment to Christ, honest community, and walking in the light.
-
We Need Each Other: Rediscovering Church — Elisha Byler
Elisha Byler speaks about the beauty and necessity of the church, especially for people hurt by church problems or tempted to give up on local assembly life. He distinguishes the universal church from local churches and describes the church as Christ’s bride, body, and pearl of great price.
-
The Good and Bad of Church Conflict — Levi Miller
Levi Miller teaches on the good and bad of church conflict, using examples from Scripture, early church history, Anabaptist history, and his own experience. He distinguishes between healthy tension, destructive conflict, division, and separation from sin.
-
Leveraging Amish Capital for Kingdom Advance — Brandon Byler
Brandon Byler speaks about leveraging Amish social and cultural capital for kingdom advance—not by idolizing the Amish or excusing abuse, but by recognizing the power of enduring group culture, and that culture will form people either by default or by design.
-
Rediscovering the Teachings of Jesus on the Subject of War — Elam Peachey
Elam Peachey addresses the relationship between Christianity and war, emphasizing a return to the teachings of Jesus regarding peace and non-resistance. He shares personal experience and historical references to highlight how certain interpretations of Christianity have diverged from Christ’s original message.
-
Anabaptists Navigating American Politics — Brandon Byler
Brandon Byler, of Shippensburg Christian Fellowship, traces his own journey from a typical American vision of voting to a more kingdom-focused understanding of navigating American politics, and argues that we navigate best when our kingdom perspective is clearest—recovering the neglected weapons of prayer and fasting.
-
Building a Culture of Honor — Steve Fisher
Steve Fisher teaches on honor and how to build a culture of honor, opening with the story of his own long journey with his Amish father. He shows that honoring father and mother is the first commandment with promise, and how to handle a father’s faults with the covering spirit of Shem and Japheth rather…
-
The Case for Rural Church Planting — Hector Troyer
In this follow-up talk, Hector Troyer recasts a vision for the rural church, pushing back on the assumption that faithful evangelism must mean a city mission. He argues that plain, country-rooted culture is well equipped for effective ministry, because genuine community is built on time.
-
Jesus and the Mennonites — Hector Troyer
Hector Troyer, author of the book “Jesus and the Mennonites: A Call to Reclaim the Spirit of Amish Evangelism,” argues that Anabaptist churches have made splitting or piling onto the best farmland their “Achilles heel,” and calls instead for relentlessly planting small plain communities where none exist.