Text: Psalm 65 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/06/Listening-to-the-River.mp3"][/audio] We're now in our third week of looking at the Bible with a lens of thinking about the natural world. And as I'm spending…
Text: Job 38 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/06/Speaking-with-the-Whirlwind.mp3"][/audio] Now that I started this series using poetry, I felt like I needed to continue that pattern. So I went looking for poetry about…
Text: Genesis 1:1-2:4a [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/06/Skilled-Mastery.mp3"][/audio] The Peace of Wild Things, by Wendell Berry [watch an animation here, listen to Wendell Berry read here] When despair for the world grows…
Text: Philippians 1:1-18 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/05/Compassion-Action-Reflection.mp3"][/audio] For God is my witness, how I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ Jesus. And this is my prayer, that…
Text: Acts 17:16-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/05/Same-Same-but-Different.mp3"][/audio] Several years ago there was a special delegate session of MCUSA in Kansas city. This was after we'd had to skip an assembly because…
Text: Acts 16:16-36 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/04/Discipleship-v-Imprisonment.mp3"][/audio] Last Sunday morning I was listening to NPR both before and during my drive to church. And as I'm sure you all know, a…
Text: Acts 9:1-19 Link to audio/video here. The story of Saul on the road to Damscus is often framed as a conversion story. It's referenced when people tell their own…
Text: John 20:1-18 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/04/Mary-Stayed.mp3"][/audio] I sure am happy it's Easter. Lent has felt hard and heavy. Both the scriptures I've been preaching on and just the news and…
Text: John 18:24-40 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/03/Kingship-v-Kinship.mp3"][/audio] There's an improv game which, if you ever watched 'Whose Line is it, Anyway?' you might remember called 'Only Questions.' As the name suggests,…
Text: John 18:12-27 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/03/Solidarity-and-Self-Protection.mp3"][/audio] When I encounter a story, as we do this week in the Lenten scripture, about the arrest of an innocent and about accompaniment by…