This presentation and information are borrowed from Mennonite Action and Freedom Trainers [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/10/Building-Courage-for-NonCooperation.mp3"][/audio] Jesus' parable from Matthew 25 is a reminder of the call to Jesus' followers to…
Text: Exodus 16:1-18 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/10/Turning-Toward-Enough.mp3"][/audio] Once again, God is paying attention to a moaning and groaning and complaining people. God is compassionate and patient and promises abundance, saying, "I…
Text: Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:10-17 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/09/How-To-Pay-Attention.mp3"][/audio] I think many of you know that for the past 6 or so years I've been on the Pastoral Leadership Team of…
Texts: John 15:12-17, Matthew 13:31-33 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Listening-for-the-Fruit-of-the-Spirit.mp3"][/audio] “And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you…
Texts: John 15:1-9; 1 Corinthians 2:7, 10-16 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Embracing-Abiguity-and-Indifference.mp3"][/audio] Jesus said just “abide in me” and Paul said God's wisdom is a mystery. It sounds like a riddle when…
Text: Luke 24:13-36 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/05/Releasing-EM.mp3"][/audio] As we become more isolated and separate from each other, we do well to be reminded that, as Fannie Lou Hamer famously proclaimed, “Nobody’s…
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: 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…
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: 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…