Acts 25:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/06/CitizenDisciple.mp3"][/audio] Those of you who have joined this year-long read-though of the book of Acts might remember this story. And even if you don’t, you might…
Pictured above: Pastor Rachael (center, holding her child) at her ordination service, surrounded by friends, colleagues and members of Community of Hope. -- I’m Rachael, she/her, CoH queer church plant,…
[audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/growing-a-discernment-community.mp3"][/audio] The recording of this sermon sounds a little bit like it picks up in the middle of something because it was preceded by the Spiritual Practice of dwelling…
Texts: John 15:12-17, Matthew 13:31-33 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Listening-for-the-Fruit-of-the-Spirit.mp3"][/audio] “And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you…
Texts: John 15:1-9; 1 Corinthians 2:7, 10-16 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Embracing-Abiguity-and-Indifference.mp3"][/audio] Jesus said just “abide in me” and Paul said God's wisdom is a mystery. It sounds like a riddle when…
While there hasn’t been much movement toward decision-making around a big question or two before Evergreen - or maybe because of this - Leadership Council invited me to develop a…
Text: Luke 24:13-36 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Releasing-EM.mp3"][/audio] As we become more isolated and separate from each other, we do well to be reminded that, as Fannie Lou Hamer famously proclaimed, “Nobody’s…
Luke 24:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/The-Memory-in-a-Seed.mp3"][/audio] Lesson for All Ages: Show: purple pole bean seeds - invites guesses about what they are and what they’re like Notice: they’re hard and small, dry,…
Luke 19:29-46 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/The-Loud-in-the-Land.mp3"][/audio] I know that a few folks from this congregation went to the big Hands Off protests last weekend. I didn’t. I don’t always avoid protest…
Text: Luke 18:31—19:10 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/Site-of-Restoration.mp3"][/audio] My focus this morning is going to be on the two stories where Jesus engages with people along his journey. They are both of…