Text: 1 Samuel 1:1-20 Before I get to Hannah’s story, I’m going to briefly share my own story, as well as part of a conversation I had with my friend…
Text: 1 Kings 1:1-40 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/Bathsheba-Revenge-and-Redemption.mp3"][/audio] I choose to integrate the reading of the scripture into my reflections this morning. I did this for a couple of reasons. First, because…
Text: Numbers 27:1-11 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/2024-08-11-Daughters-of-Zelophehad.mp3"][/audio] The last time I preached in this series on the women of the Hebrew Bible, we heard about Tamar. She’s the one who, though within…
Text: Exodus 2:1–10, 15:20-21; Numbers 12:1–16 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-28-Miriam-Witness-Artist-Prophet.mp3"][/audio] I don’t know about y’all but even though I’ve spent time with many of the women who we’re hearing about this summer,…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…