What Will Prevent Us?

July 1, 2025
Text: Acts 8:26-39 [audio wav="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Philip-and-Abdimahlkah.wav"][/audio]   This passage isn’t the text assigned for this day by our lectionary. The Narrative Lectionary wrapped up at Pentecost. But since we did that series…

Disciple, Citizen

June 17, 2025
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…

Holy Freedom

June 9, 2025
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…

Revealing

May 1, 2025
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,…