Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
337 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSeattle Mennonite Church is an active Anabaptist Mennonite Christian congregation working faithfully at following Jesus in our urban context. All are welcome! Listen in to our Sunday morning sermons to get a sense of who we are.
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Decentering human experience in light of creation as a whole
June 02, 2024 19:00 - 18 minutes - 11.2 MBCreation itself, the morning stars and divine beings and whatnot – they were celebrating the foundations of the world itself before humans were even a thing. God and nature itself celebrated and called things good before human beings were even here. There’s a bigger picture here that requires removing ourselves from the center of our small, individual universes, and calls us to listen. So this sermon is about the work, challenge, and delight of listening to creation and to one another and...
Making the World
May 26, 2024 19:00 - 19 minutes - 12 MBCultures and traditions - including religions - all have multiple creation stories. Today we hear one from our scriptures told in Genesis, and our sermon shares another one - in the form of the children’s book “Big Momma Makes the World” by Phyllis Root. Sermon begins at minute marker 8:32 Genesis 1:1-2:4a Resources Image: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/big-momma-makes-the-world_phyllis-root/780964/#edition=3554170&idiq=4077937 Big Momma Makes the World by Phyllis Root Hymn: Voices Togeth...
Faith-Filled Tension
May 12, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes - 20.6 MBPaul binds the physical body with resurrection, a holistic change from life as we have structured and understood it to that which is eternal as Jesus' life, death and resurrection gifted us. Our faith is intricately tied to a belief in the unbelievable while living and loving as Jesus did, attending to the needs of bodies in the here and now. Bodies matter now and in a future we can not know or understand - for now. Sermon begins at minute marker 6:03 I Corinthians 15:1-26, 51-57 Resource...
5-5-2024
May 05, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes - 22.6 MBThere is one church for every prisoner in Washington State. Chris Hoke from One Parish One Prisoner brings reflections on the challenges and blessings of working with churches and prisoners. Sermon begins at minute marker 4:16 John 11:33-44 Resources One Parish One Prisoner Image: Christ standing on the gates of hell Hymn: Voices Together, 348 Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain, Text: John of Damascus, "First Ode of Canon for the Sunday after Easter," 8th c.; trans. John Mason Neale (Eng...
The Power of Relationship
April 28, 2024 19:00 - 17 minutes - 10.5 MBRelationships are a primary nourishment and fuel for a transformed community. Paul wrote letters only AFTER he engaged in relationship making. His work was able to flourish because he seeded intentional relationships with people that developed trust. How might we choose to nourish relationships in our lives, with our neighbors, with our community? How might we use Paul as an example to develop good trust in our relationships? Sermon begins at minute marker 4:28 Acts 18:1-8 Image: by Joh...
The Gift of Disruption
April 21, 2024 19:00 - 18 minutes - 11.2 MBJust as the Jewish community at Thessalonica was disrupted by the arrival and teachings of Paul and Silas, so, too, are we disrupted by things we often don’t feel prepared for. What does it mean to look disruption in the eye and experience it as an opening for Jesus to enter our lives anew? Sermon begins at 5:03 Acts 17:1-9 Hymn: Voices Together, 553, How Many Times We Start Again. Text: Thomas H. Troeger (USA), © 2009 Oxford University Press. Music: Scottish traditional, The Scottish Min...
Gifts of Interruption
April 14, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes - 8.56 MBThe crippled man and the disciples both experience surprise and interruption in the norms of what they think might happen for them this day. The man expected the same - people offering him coins or ignoring him. It has been the same day in and day out for years. Peter and John expected to continue in their grieving and confusion at the loss of their mentor and friend Jesus, and planned to go to the temple for a routine prayer service. Neither expectation happens, and they - and we! - are...
At Spirit Pace
April 07, 2024 19:00 - 26 minutes - 15.7 MBIn the aftermath of Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus offers comfort and presence to his disciples. He continues to remind them he has not come to establish a nation state, rather that the disciples would be the ones to carry forward Jesus’ mission. Requirements for this include more waiting, receiving the power of the Holy Spirit. Devotion to prayer may be what will prepare them for what’s next. But that isn’t here yet. They must prepare themselves to be led by the Holy Spirit. Sermon ...
Costly Extravagant Love
March 24, 2024 19:00 - 25 minutes - 15.4 MBJesus lives an increasingly life of truth-telling to civic and religious authorities. All the while he enfolds the marginalized and oppressed into a just and merciful embrace of care and love, calling disciples to do the same. Up to his impending death disciples cannot grasp what this will cost him. A woman enacting honor and love provides Jesus’ followers, then and now, with an example of unbridled recognition of who Jesus is. What is imprinted on our being? How can we break alabaster jars ...
God with Us
March 17, 2024 19:00 - 24 minutes - 14 MBNews of wars, natural disaster, and human suffering greets us every evening, without fail. Where is God in this? Does God not see? Jesus warns his disciples of the temple’s destruction, and worse, yet to come. Indeed, God in Christ does see what human beings are doing to one another. It is we who cannot stand to look, listen, or respond to the fires, the famines, the faces of suffering around us. And yet, and yet. Jesus comes among us to announce God is near at hand, God’s gracious will is c...
Jesus Observes the HOW of Money
March 10, 2024 20:00 - 30 minutes - 18.2 MBStruck by Mark’s mention that Jesus sits across from the treasury box in the Temple, observing HOW each person gives their money, Pastor Megan ponders what Jesus might observe in how SHE lives with her own money (and for this Way walked together, how WE live with ours). Would Jesus be glad that the widow gives her last mite and has nothing to live on, or might Jesus be praising the widow for revealing - by her courageous and some might even say confrontational act - the baked-in injustice of...
The Political Power of Palms
March 03, 2024 20:00 - 24 minutes - 14.8 MBJesus’ entry into Jerusalem is a deliberate act of political confrontation with the Roman Empire’s powers-that-be. After casing the mostly deserted late evening Temple, he makes plans to return the next day to make a royal mess of things; to disrupt business as usual. The Way Jesus walks, the Way that Jesus calls us to walk (together!), is a Way lined with palms that leads to confrontation with Empire. Sermon begins at minute marker 5:03 Mark 11.1-19 Resources BibleWorm podcast: Episode 53...
Screaming for Mercy
February 25, 2024 20:00 - 23 minutes - 13.3 MBThe cries of the suffering are not always polite. When we are suffering, can we let loose and trust our community to hold us? When our neighbors are suffering, can we build our resilience in the face of their screams for justice, for relief, for healing, for mercy? Sermon begins at 6:41 Resources BibleWorm podcast: Episode 527 – The Healing of Bartimaeus, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr. Image: Melissa Kelly VT 610 Precious Lord, Take My Hand #73682 Words: Thomas Dorsey, Music: ...
Shifting Our Expectations
February 18, 2024 20:00 - 24 minutes - 13.8 MBJesus’ guide for discipleship invites us to rethink our expectations of what discipleship means and who disciples are. Embedded in the invitation is a deep look meeting the soul of our being with enduring love and perpetual hospitality to embrace the next steps of faith-filled following the Jesus Way. Sermon begins at minute marker 5:37 Mark 10:17-31 Resources BibleWorm podcast: ⦁ Episode 526 – The Eye of the Needle, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr. Mark: Believers Church Bible...
A Woman Gets ALL the Healings
February 04, 2024 20:00 - 15 minutes - 9.17 MBI can talk about a woman who experiences a minimum of three healings in one healing story. The first is busting through all sorts of internal and external barriers to step out her door and into a crowd. The second is reaching for the hem of Jesus’ cloak to seize a cure for her illness. And the third is - with one word - being restored as family, reclaimed as belonging. I can talk about Jesus making a powerful one wait in order to give his full attention and presence to a marginalized one. An...
Liberator(s) of LEGION
January 28, 2024 20:00 - 23 minutes - 14.2 MBTempted to avert our gaze from the mention of “evil spirit” or “demon”, instead Pastor Megan chooses to hold this story’s gaze and look for what may be true… then and now. What is true? What binds humans is indeed legion. What liberates humans is indeed Jesus. Who liberates humans is indeed us. Whew. Buckle up as we explore what makes demons tremble. Sermon begins at minute marker 5:05 Mark 5.1-20 Resources Intersectionality: In the sermon, I credit the origin of intersectionality to the w...
Kindom Seed Sowers
January 21, 2024 20:00 - 29 minutes - 16.9 MBJesus' parables meet us in story form about ordinary livelihood understandings. Throwing these stories alongside life experiences of these livelihoods can provide spirit openings to fuller understanding of what it means to be kindom people. With these parables Jesus invites followers to be and embody kindom messaging without expectation and with generosity. Sermon begins at the 9:06 minute marker Scripture: Mark 4.1-34 Photo by Şahin Sezer Dinçer on pexels Hymn VT 519 God, Give Me Faith L...
Hospitality & Chalking Doors
January 07, 2024 20:00 - 23 minutes - 14.6 MBChristine Sine teaches us about where Jesus was most likely born, how the Inn we traditionally invoke probably wasn't what we consider an Inn at all. She reminds us of the Mennonite tradition of radical hospitality and encourages us into Chalking our doors as a blessing for all who enter our homes and to consider who we might be excluding from those homes and blessings. Sermon begins at minute marker 5:42 Matthew 2: 1-12 Resources Blessing, instructions and image of door chalking Image...
Christmas and Angels
December 31, 2023 20:00 - 20 minutes - 11 MBRita and Janet lead us through reflections for the Christmas season on angels and being angels. Sermon begins at minute marker 7:05 Mark 1.1-20 Resources Image: Photo by Julia Kadel on Unsplash Hymn: 266 Where is this Stupendous Stranger. Text: Christopher Smart Hymns and Spiritual Songs ..., 1765, alt. Music: © 1989 Joan Fyock Norris. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.
Infant Lowly
December 24, 2023 20:00 - 23 minutes - 14.3 MBPastor Megan contemplates modern day child prophets and the purposefulness of God coming embodied as a lowly infant. She shares the story of young girls from our community acting on their convictions and their callings. Sermon begins at minute marker 6:12 Luke 1.5-25, 57-80 Image: by Anastasia Shuraeva on pexels Hymn: Hymn 223 - Bless’d Be the God of Israel. Text: based on Luke 1:68-79; Michael A. Perry (England), © 1973 Hope Publishing Co. Music: George J. Webb (USA), 1830; The Odeon...
Commingling
December 17, 2023 20:00 - 19 minutes - 11.9 MB“All of the people shouted with praise to God because the foundation of God’s house had been laid. But many of the older priests and Levites and heads of families, who had seen the first house, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this house, although many others shouted loudly with joy. No one could distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people’s weeping, because the people rejoiced very loudly. The sound was heard at a great distance.” Old and young, joy and...
Hope Has A Context
December 03, 2023 20:00 - 24 minutes - 15 MBJeremiah pens some of the most beautiful words of hope to his community. But those hope-filled words are smack in the middle of horrors. Pan back even just a few verses, and one can see that Jeremiah is writing from prison, where his people are under siege by the Babylonian Empire, their towns and cities are ravaged, homes and even palaces are in rubble, and the streets are filled with corpses. sigh. What does hope even mean in the context of such devastation and sorrow in Jeremiah’s world a...
Renewable Fidelity
November 26, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 15.8 MBWhen the Very Good King Josiah is informed that a long lost scroll has been found in the dusty corner of a closet, he rends his garments in mourning for himself and for his people. Despite his commitment to just labor practices, and the narrator’s assurance that he did what was right in God’s eyes, the rediscovered scroll of Deuteronomy makes clear that he and his people had been called to an even more radical life of justice-seeking. How might this story speak into our own desire to walk (t...
Poetry
November 19, 2023 20:00 - 22 minutes - 15 MBThe prophet Isaiah writes poetry: to express deep love between God and God’s beloveds, to convey heartache, to cleverly and poignantly pierce through word play, to evoke hope and catalyze action, to faithfully proclaim the truest nature of God. If poetry is good enough for Isaiah, pastor Megan suggests, it might just be good enough for us. We hear of sacred love, heartbreak, longing, and conviction from poets Jane Kenyon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marwan Makhoul, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Lucille Cl...
The Good News Generation
November 12, 2023 20:00 - 14 minutes - 10 MBTom Sine encourages us to create neighborhood empowerment projects that young generations could join in, without requiring church attendance or membership. He talks about the value of examining Pew Research profiles of generations in order to predict action areas of common interest. His challenge to us is to think about the future like city planners. Sermon begins at minute marker 3:42 Matthew 13:31-32 Resources Image: Photo by Mike Von on Unsplash Hymn: 573, Strong, Peaceful Man of Gall...
Remember
November 05, 2023 19:00 - 21 minutes - 12.6 MBMuch could be said of the exaggerated and hyperbolic showmanship of this contest Elijah sets up between himself and the prophets of Baal. But step back from the spectacle, and I want to know why the people remembered this story, told it over and over, and eventually wrote it down? Might it have to do with the quiet way that Elijah calls the people to remember who (and whose) they are. “Come closer," he says. Then, in their near presence, he silently rebuilds an altar, lays 12 stones for 12 t...
How NOT to be a Saint?
October 29, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutes - 17.3 MBAmidst political maneuvers, power grabs, conditional allegiances, threats, oppression, and terrible advice, a king is crowned and a kingdom divided. And precisely NOone comes out looking like a saint. We too live in violent and divided times, and while Mennonites haven’t traditionally recognized the big “S” Saints of other Christian traditions, following in the Way of Jesus does mean seeking to live as a good ancestor for those who will come after. On this All Hallowed Souls and Saints Sunda...
Praising God in a Time of Genocide?
October 22, 2023 19:00 - 21 minutes - 13.4 MBIs God a megalomaniac who needs our praise? Or do we praise God because WE need it? And what about those of us who struggle with “praise” given our religious histories? Or those of us who quite simply value being thoughtful, critical, reasonable, and intelligent creatures not prone to the frenetic religious fanaticism we might associate with “praise” of God? Even if we can find our way to a meaningful and reclaimed practice of praising God, how on earth are we meant to do this - or even cons...
Gratitude and Blessing
October 08, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes - 14.7 MBChristine Sine explores a variety of practices to increase our experience of gratitude. In this overstimulating, stressful world gratitude is an active way to push back on the negative and highlight the positive. This service ended in a St Francis Day blessing for our animals, those that God brings into our life and we sometimes forget to regard with gratitude. Sermon begins at minute marker 6:08 2 Corinthians 9.6-15 Resources Brother David Steindl-Rast - A Good Day - A video on gratitude....
Ripples
October 01, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes - 14.1 MBA whole bevy of women choose to creatively subvert the powers of death, risking their own lives, for the sake of choosing life. Shiprah and Puah - the midwives who bravely deliver life in defiance of the king, Jochabed - the mother and master basket-weaver who becomes a nursemaid to her own child, a sister protectrix who craftily executes a brilliant family-saving plan, a daughter of a king who says yes to the babe before her, inextricably weaving her life with those whom her empire oppress...
Wrestling Within and Without
September 24, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes - 13.2 MBRita and Vija explore what it meant for Jacob, and for the disciples in the storm, to wrestle. How have other people struggled with their consciences, and their internal and external obstacles? How do you wrestle? Sermon begins at minute marker 8:18 Genesis 32.22-30, Luke 8.22-25 Resources Annie Dillard’s quote comes from her book Teaching a Stone to Talk Quote from Meister Eckhart: “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one ...
I didn't laugh. Yes, you did.
September 17, 2023 19:00 - 24 minutes - 14.8 MBWe have all laughed at and with Sarah for as long as we've heard the story. An 80 year old woman giving birth!?! Pastor Megan challenges us to consider laughter. What impossible things do we laugh at? An end to hunger? Reconciliation between settlers and indigenous peoples? A green and just economy? Healing for addiction? What have we laughed at that we should maybe consider a calling into impossible, great works of God? Sermon begins at minute marker 6:03 Genesis 18.1-15; 21:1-7 Image: P...
Favored and Beloved
September 10, 2023 19:00 - 19 minutes - 11.7 MBPastor Amy shares moments and memories of God's love and favor over the 18 years of her ministry at Seattle Mennonite. Sermon begins at 5:28 Luke 1.46-55, 4.14-22 Resources Pokemon and Christian discipleship Youth play super giant dutch blitz Image: Artwork by Amy Epp Hymn: 549, Be Thou My Vision. Irish Traditional Mary Elizabeth Byrne trans. Martin Shaw harmony. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.
Our WARRIOR PROTECTRIX is Angry Too
August 06, 2023 19:00 - 26 minutes - 15.3 MBA Psalm of praise becomes a Psalm of lament as the City of Seattle cites and fines our congregation for the humans who have found refuge on our property after relentlessly being swept from public parks and lands. As our friend Rachael Weasley so poignantly sings, “How can our anger give life?” Of the many names for God, right now I need these most of all: God is Warrior Protectrix. God is shelter. God is good news for the poor. God is love. ~Pastor Megan Sermon begins at minute marker 6:02...
JOYous Justice
July 30, 2023 19:00 - 18 minutes - 11 MBJoy & Justice are the twin children of Jubilee. They go together like (love and marriage?) a horse and carriage… “You can’t have one without the other!” As we seek to be God’s Jubilee people for one another and the world, may we continuously form one another in the ways of joy and of justice. Sermon begins at minute marker 4:12 Psalm 146 Resources “Ella’s Song,” written by Bernice Johnson Reagon in honor of her mentor, Ella Baker; performed by Sweet Honey in the Rock. “We who believe in ...
Given to One Another to Remember a Forgotten War
July 09, 2023 07:00 - 27 minutes - 15.3 MB“I implore you to exercise your power to help a friend (me!) to end this war. It matters to me.” When Sue spoke these words to a room full of Mennonites gathered to learn more about the (forgotten) Korean War near the 70 year anniversary of armistice, which paused the fighting but kept the war alive, Pastor Megan knew she’d been called in. She had been called in to bear witness to Sue’s bold truth-telling and to act in solidarity with her friend. What’s next? We will figure that out together...
Blessings of a Living Jesus
July 02, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutes - 18.3 MBJoin us as Bob Pauw uses stories from Luke and Acts to illuminate stories of the people he has known in his work. He shares his heartfelt conviction that he has been blessed to walk with a living Jesus. Bob is an immigration lawyer who works with the least of these and finds it a blessing to walk with them. Sermon begins at minute marker 5:44 Luke 4:14-20; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 8:42-48; Luke 23:32-43; Acts 3:1-10 Image: Photo by ATC Comm Photo on pexels Hymn: English text © 1982, Willard F....
Saved FROM what and TO what?
June 18, 2023 19:00 - 23 minutes - 13.8 MBThe early Jesus Way community held resources in common and - in that sharing - were able to meet the needs of all. The book of Acts reports that the Holy One daily added to the numbers of this early Jesus Way community “those who were being saved”. Which causes us to wonder: Saved FROM what? And saved TO or FOR what? Sermon begins at minute marker 5:21 Matthew 15.29–39, Acts 2.43–47 Resources A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church (Year W): A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary, Wilda ...
A Canaanite Call-Out
June 11, 2023 19:00 - 21 minutes - 12.5 MBThe Canaanite woman calls out Jesus for his exclusion and abusive language. He responds by changing his mind, offering her the healing that she seeks for her daughter. Throughout history, it has been the brave souls who make themselves vulnerable by calling out people in power who have changed minds and opened hearts to be more just and loving. How will we respond when we are called out? Who are the voices that need to be heard? Sermon begins at marker 4:38 Matthew 15:21–28 Resources Bern...
Getting In Trouble
May 28, 2023 19:00 - 19 minutes - 10.5 MBThe Holy Spirit disrupts our plans, and she beautifully disrupted the sermon plan this morning! When honored guests from the Palouse tribe spoke so powerfully to us during our time of welcome and gathering, Pastor Megan knew the sermon had to shift. We heard how the Holy Spirit blesses our diversities, and grants understanding. The Holy Spirit draws us out of our comfort zones and empowers us to act a little strange. The Holy Spirit compels us to bridge gaps and transgress boundaries establi...
Learn to Know to Love to Honor/Protect
May 22, 2023 07:00 - 25 minutes - 15.1 MBPlace-based watershed discipleship and the spiritual practice of reverence deepen our experience of kinship with all creation. Pastor Megan shares stories of learning to know mountains, learning to know neighbors and neighborhood, and learning to know our foremothers in the faith. To get more specific: she learns to love the contours of the Olympic Mountain range, the many neighbors who walk along 125th in Lake City, and the tent-making mother of teachers in Acts, Priscilla. In each of these...
The Blessings and Curses of God our Mother
May 14, 2023 19:00 - 18 minutes - 10.8 MBMany of us are becoming comfortable with Mothering imagery for God - so long as that imagery is tender and comforting and caring. But what about a Mother who curses, judges and chastises. The feminine of God is as diverse and expansive as the other gendered understandings of the Divine. Deuteronomy's curse text warns the people of God that to not follow God's law will have dire consequences. We human parents know what it is to warn our children that bad choices lead to bad outcomes and we ar...
Love Is All Around
May 09, 2023 22:00 - 19 minutes - 11.1 MBThe message of Resurrection, remembered in this Easter season, is a message of apocalyptic proportions. The Good News of the community of Love springs to life and begins to spread as Dustin begins to say goodbye. Sermon begins at minute marker 6:03 John 5:25-29; Acts 5:12–16; 2 Corinthians 4:13–15 Hymn: 478, I Come with Joy. Music: American traditional (USA), Southern Harmony, 1854, alt. Text: Brian Wren (England), 1968, rev. 1993, © 1971, rev. 1995 Hope Publishing Company Permission to p...
Earth and Breath
April 30, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutes - 17.8 MBSarah Augustine, our Just Peace Climate Justice speaker, discusses the uses and failures of Capitalism and calls us to engage in an Indigenous cosmology that prioritizes Community Wellbeing over individuals and profit. She deftly contrasts a world view that demands continued growth and increasing consumption against the basic reality that we exist in a closed system of mutual dependence. Sarah speaks clearly about the ways we are willing to sacrifice human life, particularly Indigenous lives...
Mary the Tower in the Garden
April 09, 2023 19:00 - 26 minutes - 15.2 MBPastor Megan inhabits the story found in John's gospel, of Mary Magdalene (Mary, THE Magdala; Mary the Tower) coming to the garden to find an empty tomb. Enter the story with her, listen for two bits of good news, and wonder where YOU are in this story... Sermon begins at minute marker 6:00 John 20.1-18 Resources “Mary the Tower” - a sermon by Pastor Megan, drawing on the research of Elizabeth Schrader, with much sermonic credit to Diana Butler Bass. (follow the link for those footnotes) ...
It’s You I Like
March 19, 2023 19:00 - 28 minutes - 15.5 MBJohn 3:16 is much loved by many & much detested by many others. This Laetare Sunday, Dustin looks beyond verse 16 to find a way to rejoice it. Sermon begins at minute marker 7:20 Song of Solomon 4.7-16; Psalm 135.1-16; 1 John 4.7-12; John 3.11-17 Resources A Woman’s Lectionary for the Whole Church (Year W): A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary, Wilda C. Gafney, Church Publishing Incorporated, 2021. Finding Fred Podcast: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-finding-fred-91432380/ Baker,...
Seeing Eden Through the Lens of Jesus
March 12, 2023 20:00 - 28 minutes - 16.9 MBWe are still in the Garden, beginning to see movement towards the Table. What does this origin story say about gender, and culture, and danger? If we start with Jesus, what do we see about that first curse and the real danger? Join Megan as she discusses the story and the wisdom brought by rabbis through Midrash and learn about the way things are, danger, and First Tears. Sermon begins at minute marker 8:23 Genesis 3:8-21; Mark 13:14-22 Resources Photo by Kevin Toval on pexels https://ww...
Setting the Table
March 05, 2023 20:00 - 18 minutes - 10.7 MBJoin Pastor Megan in a reflection on the story that begins with dirt in a garden. We've heard it so many times, through so many tellings and retellings. What table was set in that garden by a trickster and a very human Eve? Sermon begins at minute marker 4:41 Genesis 3:1-7; Matthew 7:15-20 Image: Photo by Rachel Claire: https://www.pexels.com/photo/table-set-on-lawn-in-forest-4992937/ Hymn: Voices Together 642, Healing River of the Spirit; text: Ruth Duck (USA), 1994, © 1996 The Pilgrim ...
Garden to Table
February 26, 2023 20:00 - 16 minutes - 9.3 MBJoin us as Pastor Megan reflects on our Story's beginnings. Humans and gardens and all good, life giving stories begin in the dirt. Sermon begins at minute marker 6:35 Genesis 2:7-9, 15-25; Mark 16:9-15 Image: Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash Hymn: Voices Together 550, God Who Touches Earth with Beauty text: Mary S. Edgar (Canada), 1925, music: alt. Alfred V. Fedak (USA), 1988, © 1989 Sacred Music Press. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with l...
There’s A Place for Us
February 12, 2023 20:00 - 26 minutes - 15.7 MBIn this scripture, we come to the “ending credits” of the story of Mary that we have been following for the past several months. Using the musical West Side Story, Dustin urges us to ensure that we give credit to everyone who contributed to the story. Sermon begins at minute marker 8:00 Luke 3: 21-23; 31-38 Resources Gospel of Musical Theatre podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gospel-of-musical-theatre/id1565558402?i=1000544599942 & https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...