Friends it was my birthday yesterday. I turned 49. This past month or so I have been thinking about how I will spend the last year of my 40s and…
[audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/09/Karl-Riecken.mp3"][/audio] Our guest for International Peace Sunday was Dr. Karl Rieken (REE-ken). Dr Riecken is a family physician trained in human performance physiology and functional medicine. He is…
Text: Luke 4:16-21 and Luke 18:18-31 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/08/The-Gospel-Yardstick.mp3"][/audio] Do you think Jesus was nervous? When he stood up to read at the synagogue? These are people he knows. And…
Text: Micah 6:6-15 and 7:1-7 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/08/Walk-While-You-Wait.mp3"][/audio] Since it is Primary voting season, as I was spending time with the biblical text from the prophet Micah this week, I was…
Leviticus 19:9-18, 33-37 There is no recording of the sermon this week. Pastor Amy suggested that worship today focus on the Lev 19. So… We find ourselves at Leviticus Command…
Text: Deuteronomy 15:1-11; 24:10-15 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/07/Cancel-All-Debts.mp3"][/audio] Every seventh year you must cancel all debts. That's the end of the sentence. Cancel all debts. Period. And in some ways it's…
Text: Ezekiel 47:1-12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/07/A-Trickle-a-Torrent-and-Trees.mp3"][/audio] Ezekiel is a book of visions. It's categorized as prophetic, but really it's more like Revelation in genre - a series of visions that…
Text: Leviticus 26:3-22, 34-35, 40-45 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/07/Touch-the-Earth-Lightly.mp3"][/audio] I've started my last several sermons in this series about the environment with poems. But for this passage from Leviticus, it was…
Text: Exodus 14:21-31 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/06/Discomfort-with-the-Death-of-Pharoah.mp3"][/audio] Disney movies are notorious for having the villains in the movie fall to their deaths: Scar in the Lion King, Gaston in Beauty and…
Text: Psalm 65 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2026/06/Listening-to-the-River.mp3"][/audio] We're now in our third week of looking at the Bible with a lens of thinking about the natural world. And as I'm spending…