Text: Genesis 38:1-26 (included in audio) [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-21-EM-Faithful-Table-Turning.mp3"][/audio] This story was not among the scriptures I memorized in Sunday school, and we were not asked about it in any of…
Luke 1:39-56 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-07-INTERdependence.mp3"][/audio] 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…
Image: Chagall, "Hagar in the Dessert" Text: Genesis 16:1–16; Genesis 21:8–21 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-06-30-God-And-The-Other-Woman.mp3"][/audio] If you read the e-Memo this week you’ll already know that in and among other things that…
[audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-23-Celebrate-Pride-KSD.mp3"][/audio] 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…
Text: I Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-16-Communion-Consequences.mp3"][/audio] 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…
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…
[audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/05/GMT20240505-173546_Recording.mp3"][/audio] Camp Camrec Director Brisa Peacock shares her gratitude for the ways that Camp Camrec has been able to offer space for radical hospitality and sacred rest. Camrec has…