Text: Isaiah 9:2-7; John 8:12 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/11/A-Light-Shines-in-the-Darkness.mp3"][/audio] Our friends down the road at Holy Spirit Lutheran Church celebrate Advent for six weeks, which means they're starting Advent this week.…
Text: Amos 1:1-2; 5:7-15, 21-24 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/11/Justice-Un-Dammed.mp3"][/audio] A long time ago in and land far, far away (Winnipeg in about 1999) I worked as a volunteer coordinator for a…
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: Genesis 21:1-3, 22:1-14 LISTEN HERE My friends, this is kind of an awful story. Unfortunately there are a lot of kind of awful stories in the Bible. Stories where…
Text: Revelation 21:1–7, 22–27, 22:1–5 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/08/GMT20250817-165405_Recording.mp3"][/audio] I have been to two weddings in two weeks. (One of the happy couples is right here in our midst!) So it…
Revelation 7:1-11 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/08/Sealed-Saved-and-Suffering.mp3"][/audio] The first words of our scripture from Revelation 7, are ‘After this…” so we can tell that we’re kind of in the middle of something.…
Text: Revelation 5:1-14 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Sing-With-Joy-Around-the-Lamb.mp3"][/audio] I truly hope that this week’s sermon will feel like somewhat of a reprieve from the terrifying beasts and somewhat sobering message of last…
Text: Revelation 13:1-10 and 17:11-18 [audio mp3="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/2025-07-20-The-Beast.mp3"][/audio] There have been a few times recently when I’ve had a kind of experience of dissonant realization. It’s almost like I’m seeing…
Text: Revelation 1:1-20 [audio wav="https://evergreenmennonite.org/wp-content/uploads/sermons/2025/07/Revelation-Apocalypse.wav"][/audio] Revelation has been coopted. For the past hundred years or so it’s been taken by fundamentalists and far right evangelicals to espouse a notion…
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…