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…
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: 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: 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…
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…