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…
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…
Scripture: Acts 1:1-14 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/04/2024-04-07-One-Thing-We-Can-Agree-On.mp3"][/audio] For the next four weeks we’ll be hearing the stories of the first Christians. It’s so early in the church they don’t even call themselves…
Scripture: Mark 16:1-8 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/04/2024-03-31-Inconceivable-Surprise.mp3"][/audio] I recently heard a quote from the Jewish scholar and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel. It’s part of a longer essay, but this is the snippet…
Text: Mark 13:1-8, 24-37 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/03/2024-03-17-The-End-Of-The-World.mp3"][/audio] 🎵It’s the end of the world as we know it. 🎵It’s the end of the world as we know it. 🎵It’s the end of…