by lee@seattlemennonite.org | Jun 6, 2021 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Communicating and Consent 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: “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus...
by Megan Ramer | May 23, 2021 | Sermons, zoom church
Gathered & Sent – A Communal Sermon 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 about together as we dwelt...
by lee@seattlemennonite.org | May 16, 2021 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Family Fruit 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 know, family is the people who take care of you and who you...
by lee@seattlemennonite.org | May 9, 2021 | Easter, Jonathan Neufeld, Megan Ramer, Melanie Neufeld, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
A Community in Transition 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; a story of a community’s long journey...
by lee@seattlemennonite.org | May 2, 2021 | Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
The Faith of an Ethiopian Eunuch 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 eunuch, a gender-variant foreigner from a...
by Amy Epp | Apr 12, 2021 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
The DNA of Discipleship 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 disciples was to offer hospitality. They had been at...
