Texts: Isaiah 61:1-11, Luke 1:46-55 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/12/Sing-for-Joy-and-Liberation.mp3"][/audio] It is the third Sunday of Advent! We’ve lit the pink candle, which is pink in recognition of Gaudete Sunday, a celebration of…
Text: Joel 2:12-13, 21-29 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/12/2024-12-08-Turn-to-Peace.mp3"][/audio] Today is the second Sunday of Advent. In the liturgical calendar, it’s often the Sunday that centers the theme of Peace. And once…
Texts: Daniel 6:6-27, Luke 1:5-20 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/12/Practicing-Hope.mp3"][/audio] It’s Advent! This is a season of waiting and wonder. A season of anticipation. A season of hope. Today in particular, the…
Text: Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/11/2024-11-24-Burn.mp3"][/audio] We’ve spent a couple of weeks now with Biblical prophets. People called by God to a particular task. Me met Jonah, who…
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…