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…
Luke 1:39-56 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-07-07-INTERdependence.mp3"][/audio] It was Independence Day this week. And this country more than many is built on the myth of independence. It's right there in the name of…
Image: Chagall, "Hagar in the Dessert" Text: Genesis 16:1–16; Genesis 21:8–21 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/07/2024-06-30-God-And-The-Other-Woman.mp3"][/audio] If you read the e-Memo this week you’ll already know that in and among other things that…
[audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-23-Celebrate-Pride-KSD.mp3"][/audio] It’s wonderful to share with you and “Celebrate Pride” at Evergreen for what I think is the first time? I remember standing up at PNMC exactly a year…
Text: I Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-16-Communion-Consequences.mp3"][/audio] We’re not celebrating communion today but this is a sermon about communion. Kind of. It’s a sermon about how, in lots of the…
Text: I Corinthians 11:17-26, 33-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/06/2024-06-09-God-Bods.mp3"][/audio] When I read texts like this, I remember why I do not gravitate to Paul and why I don’t prefer the epistles generally. …