Text: Genesis 37:3-8, 17b-22, 26-34; 50:15-21 image: generated by deepai.org [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/09/2024-09-29-Joseph-and-the-Dress-of-Many-Colors.mp3"][/audio] Watch a video of this sermon on YouTube. When I read the story of Morris Micklewhite and his…
Text: Mark 10:17-44 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/09/Adam-Ramer-Sermon-MA-WA-9-22-24.mp3"][/audio] Beginning with the story of Jesus and his disciples on road together, Adam Ramer shares his own journey. After growing up at Madison Mennonite Church,…
Text: Genesis 15:1-6 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/09/2024-09-22-God-Keeps-Promises.mp3"][/audio] I am very well known in my family - or with my children, I guess, for never making promises. As any one who has spent…
Text: 1 Samuel 1:1-20 Before I get to Hannah’s story, I’m going to briefly share my own story, as well as part of a conversation I had with my friend…
Text: 1 Kings 1:1-40 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/Bathsheba-Revenge-and-Redemption.mp3"][/audio] I choose to integrate the reading of the scripture into my reflections this morning. I did this for a couple of reasons. First, because…
Text: Joshua 2:1–24 and 6:22–25 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/2024-08-18-Zach-Herzog.mp3"][/audio] Pastor Zach Herzog tells the story of Madam Rahab and the "crummy spies who got caught in her brothel." Like contemporary sex workers,…
Text: Numbers 27:1-11 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/2024-08-11-Daughters-of-Zelophehad.mp3"][/audio] The last time I preached in this series on the women of the Hebrew Bible, we heard about Tamar. She’s the one who, though within…
Psalms 9 and 10 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/08/2024-08-04-Thank-You-Mama.mp3"][/audio] Also available as a video! A few years ago, during the height of Covid and the uprising for Black lives, this little toddler named…
Text: Exodus 2:1–10, 15:20-21; Numbers 12:1–16 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-28-Miriam-Witness-Artist-Prophet.mp3"][/audio] I don’t know about y’all but even though I’ve spent time with many of the women who we’re hearing about this summer,…
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…