Text: Isaiah 6:1-13 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/11/2024-11-17-Called-to-Chaos.mp3"][/audio] Our text and story for today have inspired a lot of hymns, including the one we just sang. And many others. A few weeks…
Jonah 1:1-17; 3:1-10, 4:1-11 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/11/who-deserves-mercy.mp3"][/audio] Jonah is a familiar story. One where if we have heard it too many times we forget its main purpose. We know in the…
1 Kings 5:1-5; 8:27-30, 41-43 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/2024-10-27-Our-Foundation-is-Peace.mp3"][/audio] Watch on YouTube here. There were three parts of this scripture that resonated in me as I prepared this week, and they are…
Text: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/A-God-Who-Lives-in-Tents-Audio.mp3"][/audio] Watch on YouTube It was when I lived in Jordan as a teenager (see image above) that I was first introduced to communities who…
Text: Exodus 32:1-14 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/2024-10-13-Idols-to-Our-Anxiety.mp3"][/audio] I’m sure some of you saw the movie Inside Out - the original, not the new one that came out this past year; I haven’t…
Text: Exodus 12:1-13; 13:1-8 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/10/2024-10-06-Ritual-and-Embodied-Memory.mp3"][/audio] Watch on YouTube here. “Remember this day which is the day that you came out of Egypt, out of the place you were slaves,…
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…