Sermon Archive
Bathsheba’s Revenge and Redemption
Text: 1 Kings 1:1-40 I choose to integrate the reading of the scripture into my reflections this morning. I did this for a couple of reasons. First, because I don’t get to read scripture very often and I thought this would be a fun story to read. And second because as...
Rahab: Prophet of Promise
Text: Joshua 2:1–24 and 6:22–25 Pastor Zach Herzog tells the story of Madam Rahab and the "crummy spies who got caught in her brothel." Like contemporary sex workers, Rahab is in a marginalized and outsider class. And yet she is a prophet and truth-teller in the story...
Nudging the Needle of Justice
Text: Numbers 27:1-11 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 her rights in the Hebrew law, used deception and trickery and covert methods to secure he position in her family and...
Thank You, Mama!
Psalms 9 and 10 Also available as a video! A few years ago, during the height of Covid and the uprising for Black lives, this little toddler named Grey broke through the urgency of activism on the internet with his pure joy and gratitude. (Video: “Thank you, mama")...
Miriam: Prophet, Artist, Bossy Big Sister
Text: Exodus 2:1–10, 15:20-21; Numbers 12:1–16 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, I don’t remember ever having heard about this encounter between God and Miriam: her challenge to Moses’...
Faithful Table Turning
Text: Genesis 38:1-26 (included in audio) This story was not among the scriptures I memorized in Sunday school, and we were not asked about it in any of the Bible quizzing tournaments of my youth. I have no recollection of ever hearing it read and preached on during a...
Towards Inter-dependence
Luke 1:39-56 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 the national holiday. Canada also celebrated its national holiday this week. And even though we Canadians like to...
God and the Other Woman
Image: Chagall, "Hagar in the Dessert" Text: Genesis 16:1–16; Genesis 21:8–21 If you read the e-Memo this week you’ll already know that in and among other things that are going on this summer, we’ll be looking at the stories of women in the Hebrew Bible - aka the Old...
Celebrate Pride!
It’s wonderful to share with you and “Celebrate Pride” at Evergreen for what I think is the first time? I remember standing up at PNMC exactly a year ago and giving the exciting update on our church to our larger community - “We are now an open and affirming...
Communion Consequences
Text: I Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 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 ways that count every time we eat together is communion. And we’re a church, so we eat together a lot! Like...