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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Celebrating MCC's Centennial
October 04, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBThe Mennonite congregations across Washington State worked together to create a celebration video in honor of Mennonite Central Committee turning 100 years old. Normally we would have gathered this weekend for the annual Mennonite Country Auction, but this year we had to get creative about how to connect and experience community with one another. Listen to our full worship service here, but when you get to the celebration video at minute 14:15, consider switching over to youtube to actually ...
What Becomes of Dreamers
September 28, 2020 18:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBAs a powerful Egyptian ruler, Joseph welcomes his family back into relationship and care saying, "Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good." Though many people interpret this to mean that terror or trauma experienced by people or creation is a part of a Divine plan. But God's dream for humanity is not terror but love and connection. It is dreamers like Joseph who connect us to the dream of God and who can inspire us to continue to pursue God's dream. Sermon beg...
Peacemaking IS Accompaniment
September 20, 2020 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBWe joined with Mennonite World Conference congregations around the globe in celebrating Peace Sunday. According to 1 Corinthians, when one of us suffers all of us suffer, and when one of us rejoices all of us rejoice. This, we as global Mennonites were urged to recognize, is peacemaking as accompaniment and solidarity. We got to hear a powerful story from our own Sarah Augustine of solidarity with the Wayana indigenous peoples of Suriname, and specifically with her friend Linia, who longs to...
Creation: Relationship & Fracture
September 13, 2020 16:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBWe are back to the Narrative Lectionary, and we kick off this year's journey through the biblical text with a Genesis creation account. In it, humans are created from the earth, for the plants, intrinsically connected to one another, and intimately sculpted and in-spired by God our Maker. Almost as soon as these relationships with earth, humans, and God are crafted, there is fracturing of our primal inter-connectedness. Is there any word of hope for we who are choking on the wildfire smoke o...
Common Life & Common Space
September 06, 2020 16:00 - 52 minutes - 36 MBWe spend one final summer week with commentator Willie James Jennings, the Book of Acts, Paul imprisoned (yet again...), and the Holy Spirit calling Jesus-followers into common life and common space with one another. [sermon begins at 20:38] -- Scripture: Acts 28:16-31 Photo by Karim MANJRA on Unsplash -- Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved. Longing for light - Words and Music by Bernadette Farrell. © 1993 Pu...
Listening & Learning: Jerrell Williams
August 31, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 35.6 MBIn this last Sunday of hearing from in our summer series: Jerrell Williams, pastor of Salem Mennonite Church, a fellow Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference congregation. Jerrell takes us on a journey with Hagar into the wilderness, a journey in which she encounters and names God El Roi, the God-Who-Sees-Me. This God who sees is also the God who walks with, who accompanies, who facilitates Hagar's survival and blesses Hagar with the promise that through her son Ishmael she has birthed a n...
Citizen Discipleship
August 17, 2020 16:00 - 48 minutes - 23.9 MB"Disciples of Jesus should be desperate citizens. The desperate citizen will press their citizenship as far as possible for the sake of thwarting death and its agents." Pastor Amy explores the work of theologian Willie James Jennings and discusses the way our citizenship in nation should be engaged in relationship to our citizenship in the Reign of God. Now is not the time to opt out, when so many have had to fight desperately to be included. Sermon begins at 22:32 Permission to podcast t...
Listening & Learning: Shannon Dycus
August 09, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutes - 31.8 MBWe continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Shannon Dycus, former pastor of First Mennonite Church in Indianapolis IN, and current Dean of Students at Eastern Mennonite University. We listened to Shannon’s 2016 sermon, delivered at Christian Theological Seminary, in which she in which she invites us to consider lament - Jesus’ and our own - in light of Jesus' image of our mother hen God gathering her brood to her breast with tenderness a...
Listening & Learning: Austin Channing Brown
August 02, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBWe continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Austin Channing Brown, author of best-selling book, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, and a powerful preacher. We listened to Austin's sermon, from the Evolving Faith Conference 2018, in which she revisits the story of Rizpah, whose sons were killed by King David because of their potential claim to the throne as descendants of former King Saul. In an act of final reve...
Easy Yokes & Light Burdens??
July 26, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBNothing about the yoke of intractable racism feels easy. Nothing about the burden of a runaway pandemic feels light. Is there any good news at all in these supposedly comforting words of Jesus? And what's the deal with all those words of judgment that *precede* the supposed comfort? Pastor Megan explores the good news of a well-placed "y'all" and steals her most memorable line (attributed, of course) from Pastor Melanie, "I'm in it for the shalom, [y'all]!" You'll have to listen in to connec...
Listening & Learning: Glen Guyton
July 19, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBWe continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Glen Guyton, the Executive Director of our denomination, Mennonite Church USA. He loves pie and is funny (though his wife may disagree). And he preaches a good word: When we flee from our path, or lock ourselves away in fear, God invites us back again and again ("I got you..."), and Jesus breathes the Holy Spirit on us, empowering us for the work of transformation and perhaps even some "good tr...
Listening and Learning: Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
July 13, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBWe begin our summer worship series in which we listen and learn from Black preachers. We start with Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. With him we cry in lament for Ahmaud Arbery and so many other Black lives lost to the violence of white supremacy. With him we reach back into the history, celebrating the ingenuity, genius and resilience of Black people in American from enslaved to this moment. With him we are called from prayer into action on ...
Jailer, Jailed, Judge, Jury: None are free until all are free!
July 05, 2020 16:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBIn our annual Interdependence Day worship - on the Sunday nearest the 4th - we again expose the lie of supposed independence, and instead claim the joy of justly-ordered mutual dependence and collective liberation! Willie James Jennings's fiery, faithful commentary is our conversation partner as we engage the imprisoned Jesus-followers in the Book of Acts. We know that God's deepest desire is for the shaking of every prison foundation, the liberation of each imagination, and the release of e...
Circling Back to Gratitude
June 28, 2020 19:00 - 44 minutes - 23.4 MBWith our sibling congregations from around Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference, we lament not being gathered together for our annual assembly and we celebrate with the prompt, "Thanks be to God". Though, like the Psalmist in Psalms 9-10 we are experiencing the distress and anger of confronting injustice and oppression, we give thanks to God. Our Creator is a God of love and justice. Message from Kathryn Jamison Pitts, our Conference Minister is at 14:47 Sermon from Pastor Amy Epp is at ...
"The Common"
June 21, 2020 16:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBIn the drama of Acts, the Holy Spirit is the main character and the plot is The Common. What IS "The Common"? In short, it's the spectacular joining of God's people which enables collective boldness, criminal discipleship, and shared life. Pastor Megan reflects on insights gleaned through engagement with Willie James Jennings' magnificent commentary on the book of Acts as a "revolution of the intimate" (sermon begins at 22:20). +++ SCRIPTURE: Acts 4:1-21; 31-35 IMAGE: Photo by Tirachard Kumt...
Do Not Lose Heart: Blessings for Graduates
June 14, 2020 16:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBBlessings for graduates abound! Today's homily by Pastor Megan (starts at 19:00) is a pastoral blessing for high school graduates and ALL. About not losing heart... until we inevitably do... and then what?? Also: pudgie pies & inherited tradition, but you're going to have to listen to make that "infinitely more tasty" connection. What a joy to be led by Pastor Amy (starts at 27:35) in wrapping each of our high school graduates in a hand-made comforter made just for each one, to bless them, a...
I'm sorry. I'm listening. I'm learning.
June 07, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBToday, we tented with some Black Anabaptist kindred: Osheta Moore, Jerrell Williams, and Glen Guyton. Sister Osheta called her "Dear White Peacemakers" following to show up for anti-racism in better ways than we are. Pastor Megan follows her lead: I'm sorry. I'm listening. I'm learning. Also: Mennonites & Police Abolitionism - if we don't have the ancestors we need in this work, then our call is to BECOME the ancestors we wish we had. [sermon begins at 22:10] +++ PHOTO: "Defund SPD," by Mega...
Burn and Breathe - Zoom Church
June 01, 2020 04:00 - 52 minutes - 25.1 MBIn the days of protest, riot and rage over police violence against black people and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade and many others, we gather for Pentecost. We call on the Holy Spirit to come with power. We call on the Holy Spirit to burn and breathe in us as we kindle a fire under white supremacy in ourselves and in our systems. We remember that the Spirit breathes within us and within the bodies of black folks even to their last breath. #blacklivesmatter Pe...
Bodies Matter to God - Zoom Church
May 25, 2020 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MBDeath swallowed up in life? That might be a little hard to swallow, considering the mounting statistics or loss of beloved ones in our lives. But when it comes down to it, what Paul is trying to communicate to the Corinthian church is how important our bodies are to God - in life and in death. That Jesus put on a human body to heal and feed and minister to other bodies like ours mattered to God too. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-7...
The Loooooove Chapter - Zoom Church
May 17, 2020 16:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBWhat can be said of 1 Corinthians 13, the "love chapter," that you haven't already heard at one hundred weddings? How might we refuse to dismiss it as just another smarmy love song, and instead live every more fully, beautifully, heartachingly into its sacred siren song of love incarnate? Listen in as we sing together, pray together, and hear a familiar Scripture anew in the prophetic voices of some of our youngest ones. ++ 1 Corinthians 13.1-13 PHOTO: "Elephant Love Medley," Nicole Kidman &...
It's not about you AND it's all about you - Zoom Church
May 10, 2020 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBThe early community of Jesus-followers in Corinth struggled with factionalism - over-identifying with particular leaders. Just as Paul urged his friends to re-center Jesus, we too seek to center our collective call to discern how to walk the Jesus Way together in the particularities of our time and our place. It's Leadership Discernment season at SMC, and the very good news is this: we are a WE, and together - with our whole and real selves - we've got this. Listen in as we sing and pray tog...
World Turned Upside Down - Zoom Church
May 04, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBWhat does the Thessalonian community have to do with popular broadways musical Hamilton? Like the musical's tribute to the battle of Yorktown, Paul's arrival in Thessalonica shook up the established Jewish community and turned their world upside down. Unlike the American revolutionaries, Paul calls the new believers to a revolution of non-violent love and justice. Knowing all about what it feels like to have our worlds turned around, how do with consider what we want to keep upside down as ...
A Gaze That Heals and Sparks Joy - Zoom Church
April 26, 2020 16:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBJoy infuses our worship and singing together; longing ignites our prayers. Pastor Megan's homily explores how biblical stories that seem to equate healing with miraculous physical cures, at best confound the deeper and more beautiful complexity of what we know about healing, and at worst cause great harm. At first glance our story from Acts 3 appears to be a transactional healing story (in the form of a physical cure) for one man, but upon holding its steady gaze reveals itself to tell a wil...
Anything but normal - Zoom Church
April 19, 2020 19:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBThis week, we jump from the gospel of Mark into Luke's distinctly different world and voice, as experienced in the book of Acts. Jesus is kidnapped by a cloud (!!!), and the disciples are left, jaws dropped, gawking at the sky. They are looking in the wrong direction, two messengers inform them, and they are also looking for the wrong thing altogether. Jesus doesn't call them - or us - "back to normal," but to something altogether different; you might even say ANYthing but normal. Listen in ...
The Final Word - Easter Zoom Church
April 12, 2020 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBEaster comes whether we're ready or not. Thanks be to God! We gather to hear Mark's (short! sweet! scandalous!) resurrection account, to sing a couple of our favorite Easter chestnuts, to create a joyous cacophony of Hallelujahs, and to pray for and with one another. Oh, and Pastor Megan's "sermon in a sentence" this week? Fear isn't the final word; you are. Tune in for more on the Oxford comma, dangling prepositions (is that a real thing?!), and a gospel on loop. +++ Mark 16.1-8 PHOTO: East...
Good Friday - Passion According to Mark
April 11, 2020 02:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBWe gathered for a Good Friday service via zoom, to hear Mark's Passion Narrative, to sing, and to pray together. +++ Mark 15.16-39 +++ Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved. Jesus walked this lonesome valley, words and music: traditional spiritual. Were you there, words: Old Plantation Hymns, Boston, © 1899, music: African-American spiritual. Stay with me, words: based on Matthew 26, music: Jacques Berthier, ©...
More Than One Kind of Good News - Zoom Church (4/5/2020)
April 06, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBWe celebrate the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem with Jesus and shouts of Hosanna and waving our branches. Then Pastor Amy reflects on the good news of love poured out. Jesus silences the haters who would shame a woman for her loving gift and affirms extravagant love. He reminds them (and us) that there is more than one kind of good news. We will always be called to serve the poor. We will always be called to extravagant love. +++ Mark 14.3-9 +++ Permission to podcast the music in this...
More Than One Kind of Good News (Zoom Church 4/5/2020)
April 06, 2020 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBWe celebrate the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem with Jesus and shouts of Hosanna and waving our branches. Then Pastor Amy reflects on the good news of love poured out. Jesus silences the haters who would shame a woman for her loving gift and affirms extravagant love. He reminds them (and us) that there is more than one kind of good news. We will always be called to serve the poor. We will always be called to extravagant love. +++ Mark 14.3-9 +++ Permission to podcast the music in this...
It's only the apocalypse - Zoom Church (3/29/20)
March 29, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBSermon-in-a-sentence this week: "Keep alert and don't worry; its only the apocalypse." Tune in to hear Pastor Megan's brief reflection on reading the apocalyptic text of Mark 13 during a global pandemic, and to join our prayers and singing and sharing Christ's peace with one another. [Photo by 심 은하 on Unsplash]
It's only the apocalypse - (Zoom Church 3/29/20)
March 29, 2020 16:00 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MBSermon-in-a-sentence this week: "Keep alert and don't worry; its only the apocalypse." Tune in to hear Pastor Megan's brief reflection on reading the apocalyptic text of Mark 13 during a global pandemic, and to join our prayers and singing and sharing Christ's peace with one another. [Photo by 심 은하 on Unsplash]
The rest is commentary - Zoom Church (3/22/20)
March 23, 2020 22:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBOur new rhythm of gathering for zoom church from our respective homes each Sunday morning prompts Pastor Megan to claim with more regular intention her occasional practice of sharing a "sermon-in-a-sentence." This week's scriptural reflection can be distilled to this: "The heart of our faith is love of God, neighbor, self; all the rest is commentary." Tune in to hear a bit of that commentary, and to join your church community in praying and singing and recommitting ourselves to God's shalom ...
Zoom Church! (3/15/20)
March 16, 2020 18:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBThere were 69 households participating in worship this past Sunday! Listen along to the prayers and sharing, music and reflection on scripture. Use the links below to find some of the resources named in the recording. Scripture: Mark 12:1-12 Children’s Time: The Breaking News by Sarah Ruel Offering: donate page of SMC website More music by Michael B: Bai Tu Long Bay Holy God, whose presence is known in the structures we build and also in their collapse, inspire in us a community of hop...
Zoom Church! (3/8/20)
March 08, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBOur first experience of gathering as church via Zoom. While absolutely nothing can replace being in the same space with our whole body-spirit selves, given the circumstances, this was a delight. Forty or more of us logged in for Lenten worship and prayer, and even some fellowship with folks who stuck around at the end. What an unexpected and sweet surprise it was to be able to gather with some in our SMC diaspora, as well as SMCers who are currently traveling away from home. We convened from...
Jesus made me do it
March 01, 2020 17:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBNot going to lie: this is a TOUGH message about the laughable impossibility of wealth in God's kindom and the dispiriting reality of growing homelessness on the West Coast and specifically on our front doorstep. But it's also about Jesus' love for we who have much, Jesus' sense of humor to help we who have much to perhaps laugh at ourselves, even if a bit uncomfortably. And it's also about the joy of God's kindom where - because wealth is NOT accumulated and pooled disproportionately - all h...
A Markan Fulcrum & Evocative Transfiguring
February 16, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBSmack dab in the middle of Mark's gospel and SOMEone finally knows how to answer the persistent question: Who is Jesus? Peter responds, "You are the Christ." At this fulcrum, we've now tipped over to the second half of the gospel in which Jesus sets out to teach what being the Christ actually means. Jesus' first attempt to teach Peter about suffering, rejection, and death doesn't go so hot (mutual rebuking, Jesus calling Peter Satan...). When Peter thinks the bleachified, glowing, transfigur...
Heads Will Roll
February 09, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBThe story of an insane, self-important, opportunistic, incestuous, tyrannical (but pretty small-time) political family is dropped into the Gospel of Mark just as Jesus' ministry is taking off: Herod. He thinks he can stop the Gospel message, but the Gospel cannot be stopped. Where there is oppression, there are prophets who name it and call it out. John way beheaded for it, but his message found new life in Jesus, and as Jesus disciples we are called to do the same to our leaders...some of ...
An Audacious Reach
February 02, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBA woman audaciously reaches for her own belonging and healing. There's not much left for Jesus to do... except to stop, seek her out, and quietly create the conditions for her to speak her whole truth in the presence of the community that has amplified rather than alleviated her suffering.
Movement & Trouble
January 12, 2020 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBWe are just starting our journey with Jesus through Mark's gospel, and already there's a pattern to his movement: margins --> centers of power --> get into / cause trouble --> retreat to margins for prayer and rest (and around and around). This causes Pastor Megan to think of a piece of our Mennonite history from Rosemarie Freeney Harding, with the formation of Mennonite House in Atlanta GA as a place of respite for activists and leaders in the black-led southern Freedom Movement of the 1960...
The Call to Discipleship
January 06, 2020 23:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBUsing poetry from Lifting Hearts off the Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights in Poetry, by Lyla June Johnston & Joy De Vito, Pastor Melanie reflects on the beginning of Jesus' ministry and on what Jesus' followers are called to - both in scripture and today. -- Photo by Joseph Barrientos on Unsplash
Reflections on South Africa and the U.S.
December 29, 2019 17:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBAfter a brief introduction by Dan, Kathryn Smith Derksen shares reflections on 4 years of life in (complicated and diverse, awe-inspiring and pain-filled) South Africa. And then she beautifully brings the message home with gracious truth-telling about colonialism in our own (U.S.) lands and among our own (Mennonite) people. Listen to her powerful invitation to resist bumbling around in denying, defending, or disappearing our problematic histories and present realities, and instead lean into ...
What Are We Waiting For? LIBERATION!
December 27, 2019 19:00 - 6 minutes - 4.8 MBDaryl Morris powerfully raises his voice in word and song to reflect on his experience of seeking liberation from white supremacy. He raises his voice in longing and expectation for liberation as a response to the listening he has done to the voices of black folks - the prophetic and liberating voices of black history and the prophetic and insightful voices of his children.
Longing for Liberation
December 22, 2019 17:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBAn Advent sermon about longing and liberation, scrooge-y Zechariah and prophetic singing, despair and hope. Pastor Megan tosses out her written manuscript and dives deeper into why Advent is her truest spiritual home, and why she can't do faith solo.
What Are We Waiting For? JUSTICE!
December 18, 2019 00:00 - 6 minutes - 4.64 MBKat Goering reflects on the work of justice from her perspective as a public health grad student working with immigrant communities. She relates her experience of emerging from her white-centric, individualized analysis into the uncomfortable work of collective justice and liberation. She encourages our collective at SMC to seek the divine in each other and to seek to enact justice for all.
What are we waiting for? COMFORT!
December 13, 2019 18:00 - 5 minutes - 3.94 MBComfort Y'all, My People Pastor Amy cedes the sermon to a better preacher but reflects on the experience of the exiles Israelite being called by God to comfort each other in community. When God speaks, "Comfort, comfort my people" this isn't an offer but instructions. Offer each other care and comfort, for you who are troubled and in need also know bests how to console.
Waiting for God’s Justice (& NOT waiting to be part of it!)
December 01, 2019 17:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBJeremiah writes as his nation crumbles around him - from a prison in occupied Jerusalem, on the brink of the mass deportation of his people. Which makes his words of promise for justice and hope that God is making things right throughout the land surprising and incredible. On this first Sunday of Advent in which we are asking "What are we waiting for?" Pastor Megan invites us to tap into our own deep longing for God's justice, and to be ready to step INTO the vision as participants in more f...
High Priest Hilkiah & The Temple of Doom
November 24, 2019 17:00 - 19 minutes - 13.2 MBOkay, so Hilkiah isn't *actually* Indiana Jones, but a whole epic adventure begins when he is sent on a mission into the under-construction temple and (re-)discovers the lost book of the law. Hearers of the lost-and-found-again scroll, including King Josiah and ALL the people, are chagrined to learn how far they've strayed from the faith, practices, and covenant of their ancestors. Engaging this epic adventure leads Pastor Megan to wonder about - in our own time and place and for our own chu...
Re-Wilding & A Stubborn God
November 17, 2019 17:00 - 13 minutes - 9.23 MBIn startling twists: 1) cockroaches will apparently NOT be the last ones standing in a global apocalypse, 2) like a screeching record, a love ballad delivers lyrics of divine judgment, and 3) despite our best (read: worst) efforts, God's hope in us refused to be slaughtered. Listen in as Pastor Megan wonders about God's project of re-wilding for the sake of renewed life.
Love at the pointy end of betrayal
November 10, 2019 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBIf you've ever found yourself on the pointy end of betrayal, I bet you'd tell a story of someone you loved. Or love still. So it is with God and God's people - at the time of the prophet Hosea and now. How can we ever come back from the ways in which we have betrayed our beloveds (especially our children and their futures), God's beloveds (everyone and all creation), especially when we are motivated by the best of intentions? Can we trust that God's most decisive motive toward us is impenetr...
Saints and Troublemakers
November 04, 2019 21:00 - 14 minutes - 10.1 MBPastor Amy recites the tale of Elijah's encounter with King Ahab and the dramatic showdown on Mount Carmel. Elijah was accused by the king of being a troublemaker. He absolutely was. In the way he challenged courageously, engaged humor and sarcasm (he had a potty mouth) and yet ultimately with prayerful humility, Elijah gives us a model of saintly trouble-making, calling God's people to the heart of God. Skip ahead to minute 4:37 if you want to get right to the preaching and skip over th...
Needing More Beauty (Pt 2)
October 28, 2019 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.88 MBA woman anoints Jesus' head with precious perfume. She offers this extravagant - even wasteful - gift under the angry eyes of the disapproving disciples. Yet Jesus says of that "what she has done will be told in memory of her." Sheldon Burkhalter explores the joy, love and beauty inherent in her gift and the way we who follow Jesus are called not only to acts of service but to acts of beauty as well. This is part two, following the congregation singing "O Worship the Lord (in the beauty of...