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…
A Word on Lent 2025 by Pastor Amy This season of Lent, more than most in recent years looks as if it will be an especially hard road. Perhaps in…

Already Forgiven

February 24, 2025
Text: Luke 7:36-50 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/02/Already-Forgiven-Audio.mp3"][/audio] In our new Voices Together hymnal, (801) you’ll find the hymn “I’m Gonna Eat at the Welcome Table,” which is very similar to a hymn…
Text: Luke 7:18-36 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/02/The-GOAT-Has-Questions.mp3"][/audio]   It’s funny to me where sermon preparation and reflection on scripture will take me sometimes. This week, maybe because I’d just watched the Superbowl?…
Text: Luke 7:1-17 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/02/Compelled-by-Compassion-Luke-7.mp3"][/audio]   I went into this story (these stories, actually; there are two) thinking it was about healing. And it is. Jesus does heal people in…
Text: Luke 6:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/02/The-Best-Fences-Have-Gates.mp3"][/audio]   What's the difference between a lawyer and God? God doesn't think he’s a lawyer.  The implication is, of course, that lawyers are too big…
  Our sermon today is by Michele WhiteEagle (pictured). Michele is the Region 4 Board Chair of Mennonite Disaster Service. Region 4 is comprised of 6 units and 235 congregations.…

Not In My Backyard

January 22, 2025
Text: Luke 4:14-30 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/01/not-in-my-backyard.mp3"][/audio]   It’s a little bit of an odd thing to work and worship in one city and live in another. It’s a disconnect that is…
Text: Luke 3:1-22 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/01/Baptism-Has-Consequences.mp3"][/audio]   I haven’t been at Evergreen for a baptism. I’m looking forward to the day when that’s something that I get to participate in with…