Text: Luke 1:36-56; Isaiah 35 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/12/The-Power-of-Joy.mp3"][/audio]   "From the depths of who I am, I rejoice in God my Savior." That is quite a thing to say when you…
Text: Luke 1:65-76 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/12/The-Incovenience-of-Peace.mp3"][/audio]   Right off the bat, I want to offer some context for the poem of praise from Luke 1.  Sometimes called Zechariah's song or Benedictus,…
Text: Luke 1:46-56; Isaiah 2:1-5 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/12/Magnify-the-Lord-Magnify-Hope.mp3"][/audio]   Advent has begun! We had a kind of soft open a couple of Sundays ago with the scripture from Isaiah 9 about…

Revealing

May 1, 2025
Text: Luke 24:13-36 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Releasing-EM.mp3"][/audio]   As we become more isolated and separate from each other, we do well to be reminded that, as Fannie Lou Hamer famously proclaimed, “Nobody’s…
Luke 19:29-46 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/The-Loud-in-the-Land.mp3"][/audio]   I know that a few folks from this congregation went to the big Hands Off protests last weekend. I didn’t. I don’t always avoid protest…
Text: Luke 18:31—19:10 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/Site-of-Restoration.mp3"][/audio]   My focus this morning is going to be on the two stories where Jesus engages with people along his journey. They are both of…
Text: Luke 15:1-32 Image: from "Praise the Lord" by Randy Horst from Voices Together [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/Resurrection-and-Memory-Tyler-Merrill.mp3"][/audio]   Pastor Tyler brings a message of hope and comfort as he recalls the…
Text: Luke 13:1-9; 31-35 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/03/A-Gardener-and-a-Hen.mp3"][/audio]   "Holy crap!" is what I might have might have said if I was Jesus in the beginning of this story. If I was…
Text: Luke 9:28-45 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/03/Mountaintop-Cosmology-Sarah-Augustine.mp3"][/audio]   Guest preacher Sarah Augustine reminds us that mountains are - and have always been - sacred spaces. Indigenous peoples understand this and in the…