Text: Ezekiel 47:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/07/A-Trickle-a-Torrent-and-Trees.mp3"][/audio] Ezekiel is a book of visions. It's categorized as prophetic, but really it's more like Revelation in genre - a series of visions that…
Text: Leviticus 26:3-22, 34-35, 40-45 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/07/Touch-the-Earth-Lightly.mp3"][/audio] I've started my last several sermons in this series about the environment with poems. But for this passage from Leviticus, it was…
Text: Exodus 14:21-31 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/06/Discomfort-with-the-Death-of-Pharoah.mp3"][/audio] Disney movies are notorious for having the villains in the movie fall to their deaths: Scar in the Lion King, Gaston in Beauty and…
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…