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…

A Gate and a Gulf

March 25, 2025
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…
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?…