Neighborly Waters
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.”
Feb 19, 2017•15 min
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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Gloom & Nourishment
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 may contribute to that gloom.
Feb 05, 2017•21 min
Story of a Week
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 public reading of King's powerful Letter from a Birmingham Jail addressed to white clergy, pondering Matthew's take on the beginning of Jesus' public ministry - beginning with the jailing of John the Baptizer and quoting from Isaiah who was writing to those living in the deep anguish of exile, and finally marching with m...
Jan 22, 2017•18 min
Remembering the Future
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.
Jan 08, 2017•15 min
Overhearing someone else's good news
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 contemporary exiles - and joining our voices with Revolutionary Mama Maria's song (Magnificat - Luke 1.46-55), singing ourselves home to God's irresistible shalom vision.
Dec 18, 2016•15 min
Ain't Gonna Study
Pastor Megan preaches the second Sunday of Advent, reflecting on hot fires, bouncy anvils, and - of course - revolutionary songs.
Dec 04, 2016•22 min
Singing Sustains
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 Johnson Reagon, founder of the Freedom Singers during the Civil Rights Movement and Sweet Honey in the Rock since then.
Nov 27, 2016•17 min
It Jesus Tweeted: #actuallyblessed
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 #actuallyblessed
Nov 20, 2016•15 min
Salt & Light
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.
Nov 13, 2016•11 min
All Saints
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 beloveds who have died in the past year.
Nov 06, 2016•10 min
Just Peace among the Peoples
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 Israel-Palestine.
Oct 30, 2016•21 min
Just Peace in the Marketplace
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 resources. We are particularly challenged to think about our heritage as settlers on indigenous lands and how relationship accompanied by reparations might be a way toward a Just Peace ‘that all might live in dignity.’
Oct 23, 2016•20 min
Just Peace with the Earth
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.
Oct 16, 2016•14 min
Just Peace in the Community
...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 Ecumenical Call to Just Peace." Can anything at all new be said about the Parable of the Good Samaritan?? Indeed! Check it out...
Oct 09, 2016•23 min
Jubilee: A Grand Dinner
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 we be compelled beyond what blocks us and into the joy of Jubilee?
Oct 02, 2016•21 min
Jubilee: Totally Impractical
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 for us today.
Sep 25, 2016•23 min
Jubilee: All the Years
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 the years to come.
Sep 18, 2016•18 min
Ingathering
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.
Sep 11, 2016•17 min
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