Text: Revelation 2:1–7 & 3:1 –22 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/08/Write-This-to-the-Angel-of-the-Church.mp3"][/audio] A good portion of this service was spent in small group discussion of the text; that portion is not included in the audio…
Text: Revelation 5:1-14 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Sing-With-Joy-Around-the-Lamb.mp3"][/audio]   I truly hope that this week’s sermon will feel like somewhat of a reprieve from the terrifying beasts and somewhat sobering message of last…
Text: Revelation 13:1-10 and 17:11-18 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/2025-07-20-The-Beast.mp3"][/audio]   There have been a few times recently when I’ve had a kind of experience of dissonant realization. It’s almost like I’m seeing…
Text: Revelation 1:1-20 [audio wav="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Revelation-Apocalypse.wav"][/audio]   Revelation has been coopted. For the past hundred years or so it’s been taken by fundamentalists and far right evangelicals to espouse a notion…

What Will Prevent Us?

July 1, 2025
Text: Acts 8:26-39 [audio wav="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Philip-and-Abdimahlkah.wav"][/audio]   This passage isn’t the text assigned for this day by our lectionary. The Narrative Lectionary wrapped up at Pentecost. But since we did that series…

Disciple, Citizen

June 17, 2025
Acts 25:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/06/CitizenDisciple.mp3"][/audio]   Those of you who have joined this year-long read-though of the book of Acts might remember this story. And even if you don’t, you might…
[audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/growing-a-discernment-community.mp3"][/audio] The recording of this sermon sounds a little bit like it picks up in the middle of something because it was preceded by the Spiritual Practice of dwelling…
Texts: John 15:12-17, Matthew 13:31-33 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Listening-for-the-Fruit-of-the-Spirit.mp3"][/audio]   “And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you…
Texts: John 15:1-9; 1 Corinthians 2:7, 10-16 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Embracing-Abiguity-and-Indifference.mp3"][/audio]   Jesus said just “abide in me” and Paul said God's wisdom is a mystery. It sounds like a riddle when…
Luke 24:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/The-Memory-in-a-Seed.mp3"][/audio] Lesson for All Ages: Show: purple pole bean seeds - invites guesses about what they are and what they’re like Notice: they’re hard and small, dry,…