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…
Text: Luke 15:1-32 Image: from "Praise the Lord" by Randy Horst from Voices Together [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/04/Resurrection-and-Memory-Tyler-Merrill.mp3"][/audio] Pastor Tyler brings a message of hope and comfort as he recalls the…
Text: Luke 16:19-31 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/03/A-Gate-and-A-Gulf.mp3"][/audio] The Tiger Woman is a Chinese folk tale. The following is a summary of the picture book by Laurence Yep with illustrations by Robert…
Text: Luke 13:1-9; 31-35 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/03/A-Gardener-and-a-Hen.mp3"][/audio] "Holy crap!" is what I might have might have said if I was Jesus in the beginning of this story. If I was…
Text: Luke 9:28-45 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/03/Mountaintop-Cosmology-Sarah-Augustine.mp3"][/audio] Guest preacher Sarah Augustine reminds us that mountains are - and have always been - sacred spaces. Indigenous peoples understand this and in the…