Podcasts by Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Seattle 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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“Munching Jesus’ Flesh” from 2022-02-13T12:00
To be frank: John is a bit extra. John’s gospel will take anything that Jesus says or does in Matthew, Mark, or Luke, and turn the dial all the way up to “whaaaat?!” Following the feeding of ...
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Strategic Signage from 2022-02-06T12:00
We're all on the lookout for a sign - the thing that tells us we're on the right track, headed in the right direction - even if we're not superstitious. In the Gospel of John,...
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A Jewish Man&Samaritan Woman Walk Into a Bar… from 2022-01-30T12:00
Okay, they don’t precisely “walk into a bar”, but they do meet at their local “watering hole”... the well… literally a hole with water...
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The Parable of the Wind from 2022-01-23T12:00
Pastor Rachael Weasley of Community of Hope in Bellingham reflects on our church and hers, and gives us a teaching from John. She reflects on how this passage qualifies as a parable and on what ...
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Reading John With Care from 2022-01-09T12:00
We are now a few weeks into the mystical, strange, poetic, beautiful, mysterious, harrowing, polemical, and prophetic Gospel of John. Since we’ll be slowly walking through John’s gospel for t...
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Discipleship is like the Spiderverse? from 2022-01-02T12:00
This passage of John continues the story of the "Word Made Flesh" in John 1 with the story of Jesus' first disciples. There are three things Pastor Amy can talk about in this ...
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A Great Feast from 2021-12-12T12:00
Our final text in the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the Gospel of John next week, is the beautiful poetry of Isaiah. We hear of God’s shalom vision: a great feast where thirst is sated and...
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The Bonesiest of No Bones Days&The Practice of Hope from 2021-12-06T12:00
Elijah is having a “No Bones Day” (check out the links re: Noodle the 13-year-old pug to understand this reference!), and his people are having a whole “No Bones” season. Surrounded by the bl...
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The Messy Middle from 2021-11-28T09:00
Advent is all about the messy middle. Smack dab in the middle of exile, destruction, and the crumbling of a people’s sense of identity, Jeremiah pens a letter encouraging his kindred to live ...
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Light is Complicated from 2021-11-21T09:00
The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. But light is complicated. It can burn and glare. The familiar and beloved song from the prophet is about military conquest and mig...
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Justice First from 2021-11-14T09:00
The prophets bring us beautiful poetry and powerful challenge. Amos is clear that justice must be established at the city gate, at the entry point, at the first. Everything else flows from t...
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God, You're Muted from 2021-11-07T08:00
We continue our journey through the Hebrew Bible and hear a story from 1 Kings of God speaking to the prophet Elijah. Listen to our preacher’s reflections on the nature of God, God’s voice, G...
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Given to Weeping and Laughter from 2021-10-31T09:00
We remember our beloved saints who have passed on by reflecting on Jesus’ blessing, spoken to those who grieve: You shall laugh. And Jesus’ woe, delivered to those who laugh: You shall grieve...
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Beloved&Gripped by the Spirit from 2021-10-24T09:00
You are beloved and God’s Spirit is with you. Y’all are beloved and God’s Spirit is with y’all. We are beloved and God’s Spirit is with us. Sometimes the sermon is a mantra. With a couple of ...
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Prophetic Youth, Priestly Elders from 2021-10-17T09:00
The story of Samuel and Eli is a study in how to listen and relate not just to God but between generations. It's easy for elders in the church to dismiss those who are young(er) as too...
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Manna? Manna! from 2021-10-10T09:00
Though we think of manna as the bread that God rained down on the wandering Israelite community in the wilderness, “manna” was first a question. “What is it?!” The Israelites draw near enough...
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A Name In Motion from 2021-10-03T09:00
Names can shape identity or character in powerful ways. When Moses asks God’s name, God responds with a verb: “I am becoming who I am becoming.” What does it mean, then and now, to be in rela...
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Tricksters and Power and Blessings, Oh My! from 2021-09-26T09:00
All of my first-born, rule-following instincts are troubled by this story of a younger son employing devious and conniving tactics to “steal” the blessing of his elder brother. But how was th...
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Testing…Testing from 2021-09-19T09:00
The history of testing is troubling and it's been revealed how biased and even harmful tests can be. In the familiar passage of the binding of Isaac, God is giving the test. This story...
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An Ingathering of the Supremely Good from 2021-09-12T09:00
We start our new year with the Narrative Lectionary “In the [very] beginning…” (a very good place to start…). The first creation account, in Genesis chapter one, reveals a Creator God who cr...
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I can talk about gratitude from 2021-09-05T09:00
Summary: This one stumped Pastor Megan. We again ask: “Why do we worship?” And this week’s response, taken from our Voices Together hymnal, is: “To praise and give thanks.” Listen as Megan meand...
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Favored and Formed from 2021-08-29T09:00
Summary: Pastor Amy realizes that God plays favorites! We, God's people, are the ones who God returns to again and again, we're invited to return to God's presence to be formed in...
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Blessing and Sending: Saying farewell with Melanie and Jonathan Neufeld from 2021-08-22T09:00
Summary: Our pastors Melanie and Jonathan Neufeld have been with our congregation for the past 14 years, building a ministry with people experiencing homelessness, expanding the community of peo...
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Welcome Home from 2021-08-15T09:00
Summary: As we return to our church building for the first time in more than 17 months, we ponder the question: Why do we worship? Our new hymnal and worship resource, Voices Together, ...
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Stories Embodying Love and Truth in Action from 2021-07-18T09:00
In solidarity with Water Defenders at Line 3 in Minnesota, Christian Peacemaker Teams called on churches across Turtle Island to a Sunday of prayer and action during Eastertide this past spr...
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Resilience Through Difficulty from 2021-06-27T09:00
Jesus told a parable “toward the necessity” that his hearers might be urged to pray persistently and not be discouraged. It was the story of a woman - a widow - who nevertheless persiste...
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Resurrection and Repetition from 2021-06-20T11:00
Jesus is on a resurrection tour! He appears to the disciples not once but time and again - and then again when different ones among them are gathered. His set-list stays the same: Peace! But he...
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Blessing Our Differences from 2021-06-13T09:00
On the Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit came to bless and honor difference, by allowing for bridging and understanding amongst differences. As we navigate the many differences in how we comm...
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Communicating and Consent from 2021-06-06T09:00
Bartimaeus is blind and cries out asking Jesus to have mercy on him. Rather than assuming he knows what Bartimaeus means by ‘having mercy’, Jesus asks him a direct and open-ended question: &q...
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Resurrection, not Resuscitation from 2021-05-29T21:00
Looking to the sacred text of John’s gospel, and the sacred text of creation, Pastor Megan ponders resurrection as not only a powerful Way of Life, but specifically as we emerge from the worst o...
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Gathered&Sent - A Communal Sermon from 2021-05-23T09:00
The Holy Spirit comes to a community in the Pentecost story. And so we hear Scriptural reflections from our community. Pastor Megan shares what our Spiritual Leadership Team noticed and wondered...
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Family Fruit from 2021-05-16T09:00
Paul insists to the Galatians that all who follow Jesus are adoptees into the family of God and thus we receive our inheritance...not gold or property but Spiritual riches. As all adoptees k...
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A Community in Transition from 2021-05-09T09:00
All of Acts is a story about a community / communities in transition; a story about finding a way together through much sorting and discerning; a story about claiming and releasing and improv...
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The Faith of an Ethiopian Eunuch from 2021-05-03T09:00
At first blush, Philip seems to be the hero of this remarkable story in Acts, being willing to expand the circle of the Jesus-following community. Philip offered baptism to the Ethiopian eun...
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Holy Spirit, Come with Power! from 2021-04-25T09:00
We had a 15 minute service of worship and prayer today followed by continuation of our Congregational Meeting from last week. Holy Work!
Permission to podcast the music in this service...
A Dispute Arose from 2021-04-18T09:00
Acts tells us that as the community of disciples grew in number, “a dispute arose…” Not shocking for any of us who have ever been part of any human community: As numbers grow, disputes are su...
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The DNA of Discipleship from 2021-04-11T06:00
The disciples on the road to Emmaus didn't recognize Jesus while he was walking with them. But like a flower that knows in its cells how to bloom, they knew in their bodies that to be disci...
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Easter Celebration from 2021-04-04T09:00
We gather to celebrate the risen Christ with music, song and story. Children and their families bring their joy and creativity to the Easter story in a mini video-pageant and we conclude our ...
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Saved by Belonging from 2021-03-21T09:00
Jesus is always surprising the crowds around him with his attentions; sometimes offending with his attentions. To whom is Jesus drawn? How often Jesus walks his body to...
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Gatekeepers and the Scramble for Crumbs from 2021-03-14T13:00
Jesus keeps on telling stories about wealth and money. Pastor Amy preaches on the rich man and Lazarus and the way, like the rich man in the parable, we are gatekeepers with wealth and resource...
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Bad at Math; Good at Parties from 2021-03-07T09:00
Jesus’ parables contain an “excess of meaning” which makes preaching three of them on a single morning quite the challenge. What is one to do with the excess upon excess upon excess?? Instead...
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Truth, Lament, and Healing from 2021-02-28T09:00
Summary: Jesus tells the truth about the violence his people were both experiencing and perpetrating. That truth-telling leads to lament: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem… How oft...
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Plans&Unplans from 2021-02-21T09:00
I make plans. I create checklists. Checking boxes on those checklists is one of my greatest joys. And I’m TOAST without my calendar and its checklists. But Luke’s gospel gives us two very famili...
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Pursuing God's Will Together from 2021-02-14T09:00
A group has been meeting weekly for the past couple of months, going chapter-by-chapter through "Pursuing God's Will Together" by Ruth Haley Barton, a foundational text for the sp...
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A Jesus Who Troubles from 2021-02-07T09:00
We’ve got ourselves a BADnews - GOODnews situation with the pair of stories from Luke 7. Jesus is moved by a widow’s suffering to bring healing and a restoration of her wholeness in the communit...
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Sabbath Fences, Sabbath Gates from 2021-01-31T09:00
We worship with Jesus in the field and in the synagogue. Jesus debates with his fellow Jewish leaders about God's gift of the Sabbath. The Pharisees and legal experts were trying to fence...
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How brave it is to follow from 2021-01-24T09:00
Today's Scripture reflections feature Jesus, a heap of fish, and pondering the BRAVERY of following. That leads directly into Brenda Salter McNeil's powerful storytelling of clergy in...
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A Hope-Filled Crowd from 2021-01-17T09:00
Crowds. They can be riotous, violent, insurrectionist mobs, afraid of losing power and hellbent on throwing a prophet off a cliff. Or they can be boisterous, hope-filled, sleeves-rolled-up masse...
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Raging&Weeping from 2021-01-10T09:00
My words are stuck God
Do I rage or do I weep?
Wrap me in your grace
“Haiku prayers” posted by John Stevens...
The Freedom of Youth from 2021-01-03T09:00
Sarah Augustine preached on the story of the boy Jesus in the temple. We connected deeply with Mary, dealing with a shamelessly unapologetic pre-teen son. And then - firmly identifying with his ...
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Wait, Look, Receive from 2020-12-28T13:00
The Holy Spirit is on the move! The prophets Anna and Simeon are channeled by our own resident prophet Rita Kowats, this first Sunday of Christmas. The elders of Jerusalem wait, looking for the...
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Christmas Pageant from 2020-12-21T12:00
This week in worship we continue to explore the rich and fertile darkness of Advent, hearing with Mary the invitation to partner with God in offering a home for God-with-us in her own body.
Oaks of Righteousness from 2020-12-13T09:00
Seeds are germinated and nurtured in the deep dark black of soil. A newly liberated people draws on this rich metaphor in understanding how God's jubilee vision grows in them: from tender s...
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Seeing (differently) in the Dark from 2020-12-06T09:00
Anyone who has gone hiking or walking in the nighttime knows that darkness doesn't lead to not seeing; darkness leads to seeing differently. The prophet Joel writes that God's...
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In the Den with the Lions from 2020-11-30T09:00
In this worship we begin exploring in the dark. So much of the time language and culture teachers that all that is good and right an beautiful is full of light and all that is evil and terrible...
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Scrolls of the heart from 2020-11-22T09:00
The prophet Jeremiah records in a scroll God's words for God's people. The King, cozied up to a warming fire in his winter apartment, takes a penknife to the scrolls, excising and then...
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Musical Composition of a Fantastical Vision from 2020-11-15T12:00
As I've lived with Isaiah's bizarre, fantastical, and awe-some / terrifying vision, I began to experience it as a musical composition:
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Pouty Jonah&Spreading the Faith from 2020-11-08T09:00
Jonah is dramatically, laughably angry about God's mercy for the Ninevites, and carries on a stompy, pouty tantrum. Often I laugh at his expense; this week I relate. We also recall that God...
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Just Enough for Today from 2020-11-02T10:00
We may be able to identify with the widow of Zarephath who, in a time of a devastating, nation-wide crisis feels ready to die. In the midst of this certainty that she will not make it through,...
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A Housing-Resistant God from 2020-10-26T11:00
From the womb of wild nature, Pastor Jonathan reflects on King David, new to kingship and in love with his royal residence. God too should have a divine place to dwell, David thinks! But God re...
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Hannah's prayers from 2020-10-18T09:00
Both in her "wretched" distress and joyous confidence, Hannah prays. She brings her "hot, holy mess" to her God, and she also prophetically sings of God's joyous and jus...
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When Love IS Anger from 2020-10-11T09:00
God is angry at the Hebrew people over their casting of a golden calf for false worship, mere months after God has liberated them from slavery. God is angry. SO angry, in fact, that God seems re...
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Celebrating MCC's Centennial from 2020-10-04T09:00
The Mennonite congregations across Washington State worked together to create a celebration video in honor of Mennonite Central Committee turning 100 years old. No...
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What Becomes of Dreamers from 2020-09-28T11:00
As 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 peo...
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Peacemaking IS Accompaniment from 2020-09-20T08:00
We 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 rejo...
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Creation: Relationship&Fracture from 2020-09-13T09:00
We 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 pla...
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Common Life&Common Space from 2020-09-06T09:00
We 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 s...
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Listening&Learning: Jerrell Williams from 2020-08-31T09:00
In 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...
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Citizen Discipleship from 2020-08-17T09:00
"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 A...
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Listening&Learning: Shannon Dycus from 2020-08-09T09:00
We 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 ...
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Listening&Learning: Austin Channing Brown from 2020-08-02T09:00
We continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Austin Channing Brown, author of best-selling book, from 2020-06-07T09:00
Today, 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-ra...
Burn and Breathe - Zoom Church from 2020-05-31T21:00
In 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 ...
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Bodies Matter to God - Zoom Church from 2020-05-25T09:00
Death 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 t...
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The Loooooove Chapter - Zoom Church from 2020-05-17T09:00
What 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 son...
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It's not about you AND it's all about you - Zoom Church from 2020-05-10T09:00
The 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...
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World Turned Upside Down - Zoom Church from 2020-05-04T09:00
What 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 t...
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A Gaze That Heals and Sparks Joy - Zoom Church from 2020-04-26T09:00
Joy 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...
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Anything but normal - Zoom Church from 2020-04-19T12:00
This 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 l...
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The Final Word - Easter Zoom Church from 2020-04-12T09:00
Easter 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,...
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Good Friday - Passion According to Mark from 2020-04-10T19:00
We gathered for a Good Friday service via zoom, to hear Mark's Passion Narrative, to sing, and to pray together.
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Mark 15.16-39
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More Than One Kind of Good News - Zoom Church (4/5/2020) from 2020-04-06T10:00
We 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 hate...
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It's only the apocalypse - Zoom Church (3/29/20) from 2020-03-29T09:00
Sermon-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...
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The rest is commentary - Zoom Church (3/22/20) from 2020-03-23T15:00
Our 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 "ser...
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Zoom Church! (3/15/20) from 2020-03-16T11:00
There 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...
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Zoom Church! (3/8/20) from 2020-03-08T12:00
Our 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 d...
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Jesus made me do it from 2020-03-01T09:00
Not 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 ...
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A Markan Fulcrum&Evocative Transfiguring from 2020-02-16T09:00
Smack 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 fulc...
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Heads Will Roll from 2020-02-09T07:00
The 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 o...
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An Audacious Reach from 2020-02-02T09:00
A 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 ...
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Movement&Trouble from 2020-01-12T09:00
We 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 -->...
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The Call to Discipleship from 2020-01-06T15:00
Using poetry from Lifting Hearts off the Ground: Declaring Indigenous Rights in Poetry, by Lyla June Johnston &...
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Reflections on South Africa and the U.S. from 2019-12-29T09:00
After 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 ...
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What Are We Waiting For? LIBERATION! from 2019-12-27T11:00
Daryl 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 a...
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Longing for Liberation from 2019-12-22T09:00
An 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...
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What Are We Waiting For? JUSTICE! from 2019-12-17T16:00
Kat 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-centri...
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What are we waiting for? COMFORT! from 2019-12-13T10:00
Comfort 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 commun...
Waiting for God’s Justice (&NOT waiting to be part of it!) from 2019-12-01T09:00
Jeremiah 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...
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High Priest Hilkiah&The Temple of Doom from 2019-11-24T09:00
Okay, 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 la...
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Re-Wilding&A Stubborn God from 2019-11-17T09:00
In 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) de...
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Love at the pointy end of betrayal from 2019-11-10T09:00
If 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 ...
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Saints and Troublemakers from 2019-11-04T13:00
Pastor 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 ...
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Needing More Beauty (Pt 2) from 2019-10-28T11:00
A 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 s...
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Needing More Beauty (Pt 1) from 2019-10-28T11:00
A 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 s...
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David Is Not Jesus from 2019-10-22T11:00
King David is unmatched in the Hebrew Bible in stature and name recognition. How can this flawed and fallible person be THE ONE that is so lauded and admired? Pastor Amy tries to cut through t...
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Hello My Name Is... from 2019-09-29T18:00
God goes by many names. Maybe that's why when Moses asked a burning bush for it's name, God side stepped the question with the vaguest and most specific of answers: I AM. The God of ...
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God-Wrestler from 2019-09-25T11:00
The struggle is real! The place of this story in our first testament is a witness to the reality that God's desire for humanity is that we both cling to and wrestle with our Creator. In t...
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Laughter, Longing and the Confounding Mystery of God from 2019-09-16T13:00
We welcomed back to the pulpit our former intern Christie Dahlin to reflect on the ways we laugh - from discomfort or to keep from grief, to the pleasure of shared joy. As Sarah and Abraham hav...
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Breathed into Life from 2019-09-10T14:00
Compared to the first chapter of Genesis, the story of creation in chapter two is tender and intimate, and speaks of God's caring closeness. God's fingerprints are all over creation ...
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Hope in Suffering from 2019-08-27T11:00
Long-time SMC member Lenae Nofziger recounts the places in her own life and in scripture where she find hope. She includes her own bout with depression, the strength of the prophets, the compas...
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Jennifer Delanty's PNMC Reflections from 2019-08-20T16:00
Pastor Jonathan reads from Jennifer's experience of Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference.
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Sabrina Lindquist's MCUSA Reflections from 2019-08-20T16:00
Doug Basinger reads the contribution of Sabrina Lindquist, SMC's representative to the Mennonite Church USA delegate assembly.
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Madeleine Kelly Kellogg's Youth Assembly Reflections from 2019-08-20T16:00
Madeleine Kelly Kellogg reflects on the highlights and experiences of being a youth at Mennonite Church USA youth assembly.
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Coming Home from 2019-08-20T15:00
The sons of a father are lost - to the distant country of fast living and the distant country rules and jealousy. The woman lost and isolated by years of unclean bleeding. Through story and re...
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A Sabbath COMMAND from 2019-07-28T09:00
Yep, that's ALL-CAPS on the COMMAND. What are we - a people who don't much like to be commanded at all - to do about having been commanded to remember the sabbath and keep it holy? Wha...
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Reorientation: Praise and Trust from 2019-07-21T09:00
AJ Block reflects on worship and praise, hurt and freedom, the rhythms of reorientation, the embodied manifestation of the prophetic in our gathered body, and God's intention for us.
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Healing for the Disoriented from 2019-07-14T09:00
After hearing Mike read the gospel from Luke, Anna & Kevin each reflect - thoughtfully, vulnerably, honestly - on the story of Jesus offering healing to all 10 lepers though only one would s...
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Avery's Story from 2019-06-30T12:00
In May our adult Sunday School focused on beginning to understand our calling to hospitality to trans folks in our community. Starting with learning some basics about gender identity and expres...
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The Overwhelming Flood from 2019-06-30T12:00
When if feels like life is too much, when people suck, when stress is eating us up, when injustice is rampant and we can't stand it, the Psalms are there for us. The Psalmist lets it all o...
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Faith Action Climate Team - reflections from 2019-06-23T09:00
What a gift to have these contemporary prophets & friends leading us in worship. Listen to inspiring stories and inspired reflections from members of the ecumenical / interfaith "Faith ...
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A Psalm for something as fickle as happiness from 2019-06-16T09:00
We begin a worship series on the Psalms and, with huge credit to Walter Brueggemann, Pastor Megan begins by exploring how folks "on the desperate edge of their lives" cried these praye...
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A whirlwind of God’s Spirit in Romans 8 from 2019-06-09T12:00
Listen to reflections from Pastor Megan interspersed with the reading of most of Romans 8 by Pastors Melanie & Jonathan. It's a whirlwind tour, but in the wind of that whirlwind, in the...
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Weapons for Justice from 2019-06-03T11:00
Don't be an righteous tool, be a weapon of justice! With the armor of God, you too can do battle against the sin of white supremacy, racism and sexism. Sin's power is strong but new ...
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Seattle MVS Reflections: 2019-06-02 from 2019-06-02T11:00
In our congregational meeting on June 2, 2019, we created space for telling the story of Mennonite Voluntary Service in Seattle, and for sharing memories and reflections.
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A greeting, some CliffsNotes,&a nugget of good news from Paul’s letter to the Romans from 2019-05-19T09:00
It's all in that (long!) title: Pastor Megan begins her sermon with a greeting, based on Paul's greeting to the gentile Jesus-followers in Rome, then offers some CliffsNotes on Paul an...
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Small and Faltering Steps: Rooting in Remembering from 2019-05-12T09:00
We journeyed along with Paul and Barnabas, as they sought to follow Jesus and end up get mistaken as gods and frantically seeking to redirect! Pastoral Intern Christie explores the invitation an...
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A wild and wooly, mad and holy Spirit for ALL from 2019-05-05T09:00
"What God has made clean, you must not call profane." Peter has visions of (forbidden) food while hungry and praying on a rooftop in Joppa, but it turns out to be far more than just a ...
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Worship. Doubt. Disciple. from 2019-04-28T07:00
Pastor Amy remembers the words of Waziyatawin, who told our congregation: These words do violence. The "Great Commission" in Matthew 28 is used to uphold the Doctrine of Discovery an...
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Dispatches from the Uprising from 2019-04-21T09:00
The Empire tried to squash the Jesus Way of liberating love by killing him, and failed... miserably. Because life rose up. People, empowered by the Spirit of God, rose up. To proclaim and LIVE l...
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Palms and Protest from 2019-04-15T10:00
Hosanna! Save Us! The cries carry Jesus from the donkey on the road into the temple, where he answers the call to save by with healing. Children and youth are even now calling out "save u...
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Judgment Day&Jesus’ Fam from 2019-04-07T09:00
Ye ol' sheep & goats. Pastor Megan shares how this passage meant so much to her in a time of shifting theologies and a changing faithview. Also making an appearance: Menno Simons, Mothe...
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Weeping&Gnashing of Teeth: Grace? from 2019-03-24T12:00
It's our Gifts Discernment Sunday so there's only time for a brief homily, but Pastor Megan dips her toes in yet another "weeping & gnashing of teeth" kin-dom of God para...
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I can talk about ... forgiveness from 2019-03-10T08:00
Pastor Megan dives into both the thorns and roses of Matthew 18 and dares to say a few things about the fraught and tender topic of forgiveness. [Photo by Megan Ramer, Warm Beach WA]
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Weeds, Wheat,&Yeast from 2019-02-17T09:00
"I gotta say: I really hate it when one of Jesus’ stories ends with evildoers getting thrown into fire. Don’t get me wrong, I dislike 'evildoers' as much as the next person, but b...
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An episodic exploration of generosity from 2019-02-03T07:00
Pastor Megan took us on a journey in this sermon. It is - to start - an invitation to prayer, then a snapshot, a wondering, a snippet, a slippery word, a preference, a story, a question, a compl...
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Telling Stories of Land and Ancestors from 2019-01-28T21:00
"We want our forbears to stand on the right side of history...perhaps these cognitive gymnastics are a vain attempt to justify what is actually untenable." Jennifer Delanty talks abou...
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Power of Ritual from 2019-01-13T11:00
Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist in the River Jordan. This water ritual does more than simply mark his shift to public ministry; it effects that significant transition. Pastor Megan explore...
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Refugees&Weeping from 2019-01-06T10:00
Jesus was a refugee. Jesus IS a refugee (and their name is Jakelin Caal Maquin, Felipe Gomez Alonzo). A weeping mother refuses to be consoled. What if the truest thing we can say from this Scrip...
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Roots for Windstorms from 2018-12-24T07:00
Here in Seattle, we've experienced an unusually windstormy couple of weeks, which makes an apt metaphor for our lives of gusty national politics, devastating news cycles, and the sturm &...
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No Justice, No Peace: The Courage of Esther from 2018-12-10T11:00
Esther was more than just a vapid beauty queen. When her people were in danger she put her life on her line and used her power and privilege to accomplish justice. Esther's risk can teach...
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Nevertheless: An Advent Sermon on Lament&Hope from 2018-12-02T17:00
A sermon from the depths of my soul for my favorite season of the year, Advent. On the lovely (accompanied by strings) and dangerous (banned by Nazis) Habakkuk, waiting, and the purest form of f...
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Tender&Infinitely Fallible from 2018-11-25T11:00
Like a good spiritual director who knows we are both tender (in need of care) and infinitely fallible (in need of challenge), the prophet Jeremiah attends to a people in despair, and Pastor Mega...
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SMC Storytellers - Pete Lagerwey from 2018-11-19T18:00
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Creative Peacemaking in an Age of Perpetual War from 2018-11-17T21:00
What does it mean to be Christians in an age of perpetual war? Seminary Intern Christie, explores this question as we hear the words of the Prophet Isaiah, of swords to garden tools and nation n...
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SMC Storytellers - Anna Maguire from 2018-11-14T10:00
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When you seek a cure, but find healing instead from 2018-11-10T21:00
We hear the story, rich with details and characters, of Naaman seeking a cure for his leprosy. Naaman's dogged pursuit of a cure is transactional and full of all the power plays he's a...
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A Jubilee Epistle for All Saints from 2018-11-04T14:00
"To the angel of the Mennonite Church of Seattle..." Our 50-year-anniversary celebration weekend built toward our All Saints worship in which we heard letters of greeting, remembrance,...
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Not of this world? from 2018-10-27T21:00
King Solomon plays a deadly game of chicken, with an infant's life at stake, and for this is he is called wise. Pastor Megan explores the anti-monarchy sentiment buried within this and othe...
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SMC Storytellers - Rita Kowats from 2018-10-22T21:00
A story that moves from the quickstep to the tango. I the first minute or so of the recording is missing, with Rita's introduction of that key image of formality to freedom that she uses ...
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Bathsheba's #MeToo from 2018-10-20T21:00
Every woman has a story in which her body was in some way violated by a man. In which her consent was not sought. For Bathsheba her #MeToo moment changed the entire direction of her life. Whe...
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SMC Storytellers - Hannah Notess from 2018-10-13T21:00
Hannah shares her experience in community, benefiting from the fruit that other's planted and nurtured, and in turn sowing seeds that will grow plants from which others can harvest.
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Final Words from 2018-10-13T21:00
We continue our journey with the Narrative Lectionary into Joshua. Pastor Megan reflects on Joshua's final oration to his beloved people. You'll have to listen to figure out what on ea...
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SMC Storytellers - Bob Pauw from 2018-10-08T21:00
On his 40th Anniversary with his late wife Linda, Bob reflects on the way community has made God present over his and Linda's relationship with our church.
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How Do You Feel About Boundaries? from 2018-10-08T21:00
The ten commandments. They are often co-opted by institutions and governments as a litmus test for political affiliation. What they were in context was a covenant: identifying community, limi...
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The Bad Guy Needs to Die from 2018-09-29T21:00
Pastor Amy explores why the destruction of Pharaoh's army is so important to the story of the deliverance of the people of Israel and how, when it's used as a recurring chorus of salvatio...
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A Can of Worms&Immigration Stories from 2018-09-22T21:00
What a week to hear this story! Listen as Pastor Megan exposes some of the troubling and resonant layers of our Genesis story of Joseph and Potiphar's unnamed wife. And yet heed the call to ma...
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A Call No One Would Want from 2018-09-15T21:00
Pastor Megan explores the extreme vulnerability Abram & Sarai must have experienced as part of their call to leave their land and kindred.
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Choosing Armor from 2018-09-08T21:00
SMC member Melissa Kelly invites us to consider what the armor of God, fighting racism, the Deathstar takedown and attachment parenting have in common. And how we are called on as followers of Jes...
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Wrestled Claims About God from 2018-09-08T21:00
On this first Sunday of our Narrative Lectionary adventure, we start at the very beginning: Genesis. Pastor Megan wrestles with how Creator God becomes Destroyer God in the story of the flood, and ...
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Holy Desire, Sacred Sensuality from 2018-09-01T21:00
The explicit desire expressed in the Song of Songs can make us squirm, which is why we don't hear it in worship very often. But this book gives voice to human longing and and expression to th...
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Forgiveness from 2018-08-18T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on the people we carry around within us, "releasing" and "retaining" the sins of others, and the ongoing practice of forgiveness.
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Sustenance from 2018-08-04T21:00
On this Sunday, Pastor Megan shared the words of Jan Richardson, offering them as sustenance. © Jan Richardson, “The Gastronomical Jesus,” Reading from the Gospels, Year B, Proper 13 / Ordinary 18 ...
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Bathed in the Spirit from 2018-08-01T21:00
Summer Ministry Intern Thalia Neufeld dives into the way the Holy Spirit moves throughout Scripture and her understanding of the Spirit's work in the world. She also relates her experience wi...
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Hometown Reject from 2018-07-21T21:00
Jesus and his message of God's reign of love were rejected in the town where he grew up. That rejection pivoted Jesus into a ministry that was even larger and more broad, full of healing and ...
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Church Meeting Brings ... Hope?!! from 2018-07-14T21:00
A large groups of SMCers traveled to Boise this summer and had a great time! Pastor Megan reports on the annual meeting of Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference that took place in Boise ID at the ...
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Fire&Brimstone from 2018-06-23T21:00
We welcomed Erica Lea-Simka, pastor of Albuquerque Mennonite Church in Albuquerque NM, to preach for our Pride Sunday worship.
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Seeds Grow from 2018-06-17T00:00
Pastor Megan reflects on the most "boring" of all parables in which nothings happens ... or is it EVERYthing happens? Listen for punch lines like: "the smallest of all seeds which, w...
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A Collage of God from 2018-05-27T00:00
On Trinity-ish / Trinity-PLUS Sunday, Pastor Megan shares snapshots of some of the MANY names for God and images of God that make up her limited yet growing collage of who God is.
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I Will Put My Spirit Within You from 2018-05-20T00:00
The Holy Spirit is active and expansive and there is no getting away from her. God's promise is to breathe into our dry bones and enliven what feels barren, to bring life where there is no ho...
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Building Social Capital from 2018-04-29T00:00
Pastor Melanie reflects on the story of the Ethiopian eunuch and Philip from the book of Acts, listening for some resonance with our Community Ministries here in the Lake City neighborhood. From so...
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Other Sheep from 2018-04-21T21:00
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold, Jesus said. I must bring them also… So there will be one flock, one shepherd. Pastor Megan reflects on those other metaphorical sheep. In the par...
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In Strides Jesus from 2018-04-07T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on fearful disciples gathered behind locked doors in Jerusalem. Through the locked doors of their fear, in strides Jesus. Speaking a word of peace, in strides Jesus. [Photo by...
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Can anything good come out of a trap house? from 2018-03-31T21:00
Pastor Jonathan reflects on when life goes sideways and finding hope amidst the impossible and fearful. Sharing stories of the unexpected uprising of life in our own community, this sermon is not t...
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Cross and the Lynching Tree from 2018-03-24T21:00
Jesus' carefully calculated and lampooning political march into Jerusalem helped ensure that he would need to be crucified, along with many other brave prophets before and after him. Pastor Me...
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Glory&Death from 2018-03-17T21:00
Jason Rust preaches for us - reflecting on glory and death and earthiness and bodies and Mary Oliver poetry and unplanted seeds and lassitude and recklessness in love. You'll just have to list...
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A Slithering Slew of Venomous Vipers from 2018-03-10T21:00
What to do with the story in Numbers of God sending poisonous snakes to mortally wound the Israelites in the desert? What on earth could this story have to say to us? Listen as Pastor Megan takes a...
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Small Things Matter from 2018-03-06T21:00
As Christians we've inherited a rather confused message about "The Law." Historically Christians have loved the Ten Commandments, even advocating for their physical presence at our p...
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Names That Are True from 2018-02-24T21:00
Pastor Amy tells anew the story of a queerly named God who gives new names and new identities to Abram and Sarai and calls them into new identities in ways they cannot comprehend. Like them we are...
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Lament&A Rainbow Promise for All from 2018-02-17T21:00
Pastor Megan leads us in lament for victims of gun violence, specifically the 17 precious youth and adults gunned down by a teenager with an assault rifle in Parkland, Florida this past week. And t...
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Joining My Voice from 2018-02-03T21:00
Pastor Megan invites us - like Jesus did when he retreated for prayer in the dark early morning hours - to dwell with the Psalms as we begin to process together having heard a challenging word from...
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Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Genocide from 2018-01-27T21:00
WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE? The Struggles for Liberation in Indigenous Homelands. Speakers Wazitayawin and John Stoesz shared with us the experience of the Dakota struggle for land justice in Minn...
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Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Ethnicide from 2018-01-27T21:00
WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE? The Struggles for Liberation in Indigenous Homelands. Speakers Wazitayawin and John Stoesz shared with us the experience of the Dakota struggle for land justice in Minn...
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Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Ecocide from 2018-01-27T21:00
WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE? The Struggles for Liberation in Indigenous Homelands. Speakers Wazitayawin and John Stoesz shared with us the experience of the Dakota struggle for land justice in Minn...
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Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Land Left&Return from 2018-01-27T21:00
WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE? The Struggles for Liberation in Indigenous Homelands. Speakers Wazitayawin and John Stoesz shared with us the experience of the Dakota struggle for land justice in Minn...
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Zebedee: Abandoned from 2018-01-20T21:00
Pastor Megan preaches about Zebedee left standing in the boat when his sons leave to follow Jesus. [Please note there's a long silence in the middle of this recording. It is not accidental.] ...
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Light Quality from 2018-01-08T21:00
Pastor Amy explores the way the 'light' of empire, exemplified by the violent and cruel reign of Herod is of a fundamentally different nature than the light of the star guiding the magi. ...
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Joy in the midst of chaos from 2017-12-16T21:00
How to preach joy on the week when one of our beloved friends has died ... and far too young?
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God be with you till we meet again from 2017-12-10T21:00
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Hope in the midst of chaos from 2017-12-02T21:00
Advent, again, begins with a bang. An apocalyptic bang. We are welcomed into this season with the startling yet strangely familiar words of Jesus from Mark's "little apocalypse." Pas...
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What God Requires from 2017-11-18T21:00
We look at Micah 6 – the full chapter in which beloved verse 8 (“What does God require of you? But to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.”) finds a home. Pastor Megan invites ...
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A Plaintiff God from 2017-11-12T00:00
We look at Micah 6 - the full chapter in which beloved verse 8 ("What does God require of you? But to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.") finds a home. The setting...
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Stranger Things from 2017-11-04T21:00
When you learn to follow Jesus, you might act a little strange. As we celebrate All Saints day, we look to the strange saints and weirdos who followed Jesus against what our culture tells us is no...
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Final Messages from 2017-10-22T00:00
Pastor Megan wraps up our worship series with Paul's letter to the Corinthians by reflecting a bit on Paul's final messages to his friends in Corinth.
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Over Her Own Head.mp3 from 2017-10-09T00:00
Pastor Amy reflects on men and women, hair and head coverings, praying and prophesying. What does it mean to be faithful?
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Foundation from 2017-09-30T21:00
Pastor Megan continues our adventure with the congregation at Corinth by reflecting on Paul's mixed metaphors (are we God's field or God's building?!), and the distractions that keep...
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Food: Communion Economics from 2017-09-23T21:00
The communion table has greater implications than just the gathering on a Sunday morning. The way we share food together around the Lord's table should be reflective of the way we share all o...
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Foolishness from 2017-09-16T21:00
Pastor Megan kicks off our 6-week series on 1 Corinthians reflecting on what it's like to read someone else's mail from 2000 years ago and across the globe, what resonance there might be ...
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God's Heart from 2017-07-22T21:00
A rich time of storytelling about God’s heart for the refugee, foreigner, and immigrant! We heard from our own Caitlin and Zach, as well as Caitlin's co-worker Alex. We were treated to stories...
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Reflections from MCUSA in Orlando from 2017-07-08T21:00
Pastor Megan shares some stories and initial reflections from her time at the biennial gathering of Mennonite Church USA in Orlando, July 4-8.
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It Takes Two to Tango from 2017-07-01T21:00
Pastor Amy reflects on our interdependence in this weekend of celebrating July 4th and the nation telling us how independent we should be.
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Gutsy Compassion from 2017-06-17T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on the compassion Jesus has for the "helpless, harassed, oppressed, and discarded" crowds of his day as well as our day. What compassion is stirring and rising from ...
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The Alchemy of Quilting&Community from 2017-06-03T21:00
Remembering the childhood enchantment of lying under a quilt in its frame while her grandmother quilted, Pastor Megan reflects on the magic of forever binding together three disparate pieces into a...
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Wait, Worship, Witness from 2017-05-27T21:00
"Wait. Do it actively and with intention and expect the Holy Spirit to show up. Worship. Refocus on loving and being loved by God. Witness. Tell the story of Jesus. Enact the story of Jesus...
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Calling Cows&Listening for God from 2017-05-06T21:00
Jesus said that the sheep know the shepherd's voice. Pastor Megan reflects on her experience as a farmhand on a Swiss dairy farm - calling cows in from pasture who knew the voice of their actu...
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We Had Hoped from 2017-04-29T21:00
Pastor Amy explores the place between disappointment and hope with the disciples who encounter the risen Jesus on the road and at the table.
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Proximity&Proclamation: For MJ Sharp from 2017-04-15T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on the untimely and violent death of dart-throwing, prankster peacemaker MJ Sharp, Mary Magdalene weeping at the tomb of Jesus on that first Easter Sunday morning, and proximi...
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Procession of the Ridiculous from 2017-04-08T21:00
An undomesticated look at the Palm Processional and just how funny, just how serious, and just how dangerous it was for Jesus to ride a baby donkey into the eastern gate of Jerusalem while Pontius ...
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Interview with Sarah Sommers from 2017-04-01T21:00
Pastor Megan interviews Sarah Sommers from Christian Peacemaker Teams, asking her to reflect on the actively nonviolent way of Jesus as it connects with the gospel story of encountering Martha and ...
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Mud made with spit&a pool called Sent from 2017-03-25T21:00
Pastor Megan tells the story of the man born blind who has a healing encounter with Jesus and then tense encounters with some would-be prosecutors in John 9, and reflects on her own experience with...
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Softening the stories we tell ourselves from 2017-03-19T00:00
Pastor Jonathan reflects on Jesus encountering the woman at the well and offering her living water. What harsh stories do we tell about ourselves and what self-judgments do we hold onto? How might ...
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Nighttime Musings from 2017-03-11T21:00
Nicodemus comes to Jesus under cover of night. Pastor Megan preaches the third Sunday of Lent
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Attended by Angels from 2017-03-04T21:00
Jesus is tempted in the wilderness and then attended to by angels. Pastor Megan preaches the first Sunday of Lent.
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Transfigured Earth from 2017-02-25T21:00
Pastor Megan preaches the final sermon in our 4-week "A Place We Love" series, all about Watershed Discipleship. Having moved from learning to knowing to loving, we conclude with "p...
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Neighborly Waters from 2017-02-18T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on how we come to know our waters as our neighbors and, as such, to love them as ourselves. The third Sunday in our Watershed Discipleship worship series “A Place We Love.”
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Gloom&Nourishment from 2017-02-04T21:00
The first in our worship series "A Place We Love," Pastor Megan reflects on where we find hope and nourishment in gloomy times, and how disconnection from our watersheds and bioregions ma...
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Story of a Week from 2017-01-21T21:00
Pastor Megan tells the story of her week: listening to her favorite of Martin Luther King Jr.'s speeches, "A Time to Break Silence" delivered at Riverside Church, listening to a publ...
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Remembering the Future from 2017-01-07T21:00
In her final sermon before being sent with our blessing into her sabbatical, Pastor Amy reflects on the Epiphany story of the magi, power and kingship, and remembering the future of who Jesus will be.
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Overhearing someone else's good news from 2016-12-17T21:00
Pastor Megan preaches on the fourth and final Sunday of our Advent "Revolutionary Songs" worship series. She reflects on overhearing someone else's good news - both biblical and cont...
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Ain't Gonna Study from 2016-12-03T21:00
Pastor Megan preaches the second Sunday of Advent, reflecting on hot fires, bouncy anvils, and - of course - revolutionary songs.
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Singing Sustains from 2016-11-26T21:00
Pastor Megan opens our Advent season of Revolutionary Songs with a sermon reflecting on how singing has sustained movements of just peace across time and place. Encounter the story of Bernice Johns...
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It Jesus Tweeted: #actuallyblessed from 2016-11-19T21:00
Pastor Amy discussed how the understanding of what it means to be blessed has been misunderstood. In our weakness and vulnerability, there is more room for knowing God's presence, and that is...
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Salt&Light from 2016-11-12T21:00
Pastor Megan invites us to kneel at the feet of Jesus and hear just the word we need to hear on this hard post-election week.
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All Saints from 2016-11-05T21:00
Pastor Megan offers a brief homily, reflecting on the introspection of this season, the intimacy of joy and sorrow, and invites the living saints of SMC to remember with candlelight and word those ...
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Just Peace among the Peoples from 2016-10-30T00:00
Pastor Megan preaches the final in our Just Peace series, reflecting on Jesus' teaching to pray for and love our enemies, and telling a story of the prayerful communing of tea-drinking in Isra...
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Just Peace in the Marketplace from 2016-10-22T21:00
Pastor Amy continues our series on Just Peace with a sermon that highlights the community-ist vision of the early church and challenges us to communal and individual discernment of how we share res...
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Just Peace with the Earth from 2016-10-15T21:00
Our honored guest speaker is Edie Loyer Nelson, member of the Duwamish Tribe, first people of Seattle and the land on which our church building sits.
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Just Peace in the Community from 2016-10-08T21:00
...so that all may live free from fear. Pastor Jonathan preaches the first in a 4-week series on Just Peace, based on the 4 pillars established in the World Council of Churches document, "An E...
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Jubilee: A Grand Dinner from 2016-10-01T21:00
Pastor Megan preaches the final in a 3-week series on Biblical Jubilee. Featuring "The Parable of the Grand Dinner," also known as "The Parable of the Lame Excuses!" How might w...
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Jubilee: Totally Impractical from 2016-09-24T21:00
Pastor Megan preaches her first ever sermon on the riveting and inspiring (*ahem*) book of Leviticus. Dive in to the Levitical vision of Jubilee, with its roots in the Exodus and its implications f...
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Jubilee: All the Years from 2016-09-17T21:00
Pastor Amy preaches the first in a series on Biblical Jubilee. Jesus proclaims Jubilee in the synagogue, calling on the tradition of the prophets. We are called to live Jubilee now and for all th...
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Ingathering from 2016-09-10T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on Jesus returning to his hometown in Luke 4, and marking one year of her ministry at SMC, for our annual Ingathering Sunday celebration.
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Ingathering from 2016-09-10T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on Jesus returning to his hometown in Luke 4, and marking one year of her ministry at SMC, for our annual Ingathering Sunday celebration.
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Ingathering from 2016-09-10T21:00
Pastor Megan reflects on Jesus returning to his hometown in Luke 4, and marking one year of her ministry at SMC, for our annual Ingathering Sunday celebration.
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