Text: Isaiah 6:1-13 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/11/2024-11-17-Called-to-Chaos.mp3"][/audio] Our text and story for today have inspired a lot of hymns, including the one we just sang. And many others. A few weeks…
1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:27-30, 41-43 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/2024-10-27-Our-Foundation-is-Peace.mp3"][/audio] Watch on YouTube here. There were three parts of this scripture that resonated in me as I prepared this week, and they are…
Text: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/A-God-Who-Lives-in-Tents-Audio.mp3"][/audio] Watch on YouTube It was when I lived in Jordan as a teenager (see image above) that I was first introduced to communities who…
Text: Exodus 32:1-14 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/2024-10-13-Idols-to-Our-Anxiety.mp3"][/audio] I’m sure some of you saw the movie Inside Out - the original, not the new one that came out this past year; I haven’t…
Text: Exodus 12:1-13; 13:1-8 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/2024-10-06-Ritual-and-Embodied-Memory.mp3"][/audio] Watch on YouTube here. “Remember this day which is the day that you came out of Egypt, out of the place you were slaves,…
Text: Genesis 37:3-8, 17b-22, 26-34; 50:15-21 image: generated by deepai.org [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/09/2024-09-29-Joseph-and-the-Dress-of-Many-Colors.mp3"][/audio] Watch a video of this sermon on YouTube. When I read the story of Morris Micklewhite and his…
Text: 1 Samuel 1:1-20 Before I get to Hannah’s story, I’m going to briefly share my own story, as well as part of a conversation I had with my friend…
Text: 1 Kings 1:1-40 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/Bathsheba-Revenge-and-Redemption.mp3"][/audio] I choose to integrate the reading of the scripture into my reflections this morning. I did this for a couple of reasons. First, because…
Text: Numbers 27:1-11 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/2024-08-11-Daughters-of-Zelophehad.mp3"][/audio] The last time I preached in this series on the women of the Hebrew Bible, we heard about Tamar. She’s the one who, though within…
Text: Exodus 2:1–10, 15:20-21; Numbers 12:1–16 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-28-Miriam-Witness-Artist-Prophet.mp3"][/audio] I don’t know about y’all but even though I’ve spent time with many of the women who we’re hearing about this summer,…