Luke 1:39-56 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-07-INTERdependence.mp3"][/audio] It was Independence Day this week. And this country more than many is built on the myth of independence.  It's right there in the name of…
Image: Chagall, "Hagar in the Dessert" Text: Genesis 16:1–16; Genesis 21:8–21 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-06-30-God-And-The-Other-Woman.mp3"][/audio] If you read the e-Memo this week you’ll already know that in and among  other things that…

Communion Consequences

June 17, 2024
Text: I Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-16-Communion-Consequences.mp3"][/audio] We’re not celebrating communion today but this is a sermon about communion. Kind of. It’s a sermon about how, in lots of the…

God Bods

June 11, 2024
Text: I Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-09-God-Bods.mp3"][/audio] When I read texts like this, I remember why I do not gravitate to Paul and why I don’t prefer the epistles generally. …

Body Language

May 28, 2024
Text: 1 Corinthians 12:1-13 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/05/2024-05-26-Body-Language.mp3"][/audio] The day of Pentecost has past but I have a fondness for Pentecost. It’s partly because of the drama of the events: wind and…

Mother Tongue

May 21, 2024
Text: Acts 2:1 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/05/2024-05-19-Mother-Tongue.mp3"][/audio] I know that many of you have done lots of traveling abroad. I wonder who among us would consider themselves fluent in a language other…

If Love Were Math

May 15, 2024
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/05/2024-05-12-Love-And-Math.mp3"][/audio] Let’s get it out of the way right off the bat: even though the most common place to hear this passage is at a…
Scripture: Acts 18:1-4; 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/04/2024-04-28-Good-News.mp3"][/audio] Because of the text from today I’ve been thinking about baptism this week. And it occurred to me that it’s been 30…
Text: Acts 17:1-9; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/04/2024-04-21-Dear-Church.mp3"][/audio] Remember letters? I know there are at least a few folks here for whom letters were at one time an important way…
Acts 3:1-10 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/04/2024-04-14-What-Can-We-Give_.mp3"][/audio] This morning I’m going to tell you about Carmen. Carmen is the kind of person who has a level of empathy for people that is deeper…