Text: Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:10-17 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/09/How-To-Pay-Attention.mp3"][/audio] I think many of you know that for the past 6 or so years I've been on the Pastoral Leadership Team of…
Text: Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23; 28:10-17 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/09/God-Uh-Finds-a-Way.mp3"][/audio] In the 1993 classic movie, Jurassic park there is a scene in which the Dr. Ian Malcom, played by the iconic Jeff…
Text: Genesis 21:1-3, 22:1-14 LISTEN HERE My friends, this is kind of an awful story. Unfortunately there are a lot of kind of awful stories in the Bible. Stories where…
Text: Revelation 21:1–7, 22–27, 22:1–5 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/08/GMT20250817-165405_Recording.mp3"][/audio] I have been to two weddings in two weeks. (One of the happy couples is right here in our midst!) So it…
Revelation 7:1-11 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/08/Sealed-Saved-and-Suffering.mp3"][/audio] The first words of our scripture from Revelation 7, are ‘After this…” so we can tell that we’re kind of in the middle of something.…
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…
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…