Text: Acts 8:26-39 [audio wav="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Philip-and-Abdimahlkah.wav"][/audio] This passage isn’t the text assigned for this day by our lectionary. The Narrative Lectionary wrapped up at Pentecost. But since we did that series…
Pictured above: Pastor Rachael (center, holding her child) at her ordination service, surrounded by friends, colleagues and members of Community of Hope. -- I’m Rachael, she/her, CoH queer church plant,…
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 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 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…
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 4:14-30 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/01/not-in-my-backyard.mp3"][/audio] It’s a little bit of an odd thing to work and worship in one city and live in another. It’s a disconnect that is…
Texts: Isaiah 61:1-11, Luke 1:46-55 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/12/Sing-for-Joy-and-Liberation.mp3"][/audio] It is the third Sunday of Advent! We’ve lit the pink candle, which is pink in recognition of Gaudete Sunday, a celebration of…
Text: Joel 2:12-13, 21-29 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/12/2024-12-08-Turn-to-Peace.mp3"][/audio] Today is the second Sunday of Advent. In the liturgical calendar, it’s often the Sunday that centers the theme of Peace. And once…
Text: Jeremiah 36:1-8, 21-23, 27-28; 31:31-34 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2024/11/2024-11-24-Burn.mp3"][/audio] We’ve spent a couple of weeks now with Biblical prophets. People called by God to a particular task. Me met Jonah, who…