Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

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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.

April 21, 2019
Megan M Ramer

Dispatches from the Uprising

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 pr...
April 15, 2019
Amy Marie Epp

Palms and Protest

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...
April 07, 2019
Megan M Ramer

Judgment Day & Jesus’ Fam

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 S...
March 24, 2019
Megan M Ramer

Weeping & Gnashing of Teeth: Grace?

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 parable...
March 10, 2019
Megan M Ramer

I can talk about ... forgiveness

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 Beac...
February 17, 2019
Megan M Ramer

Weeds, Wheat, & Yeast

"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...
February 03, 2019
Megan M Ramer

An episodic exploration of generosity

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 ...
January 29, 2019
Jennifer Delanty and Kyle Reimergartin

Telling Stories of Land and Ancestors

"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 tal...
January 13, 2019
Megan M Ramer

Power of Ritual

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. Pas...
January 06, 2019
Megan M Ramer

Refugees & Weeping

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 sa...
December 30, 2018
Pastor Amy Marie Epp

I Am From

Matthew's first verses may sound like a list of boring names. But these names tell the story of where Jesus came from. They tell the story of brokenness and triumph of loss an...
December 24, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Roots for Windstorms

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 th...
December 10, 2018
Amy Marie Epp

No Justice, No Peace: The Courage of Esther

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 ri...
December 02, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Nevertheless: An Advent Sermon on Lament & Hope

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...
November 25, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Tender & Infinitely Fallible

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...
November 19, 2018
Pete Lagerwey

SMC Storytellers - Pete Lagerwey
November 18, 2018
Christie Dahlin

Creative Peacemaking in an Age of Perpetual War

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 t...
November 14, 2018
Anna Maguire

SMC Storytellers - Anna Maguire
November 11, 2018
Megan M Ramer

When you seek a cure, but find healing instead

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...
November 04, 2018
Megan M Ramer

A Jubilee Epistle for All Saints

"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, remem...
October 28, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Not of this world?

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 t...
October 23, 2018
Rita Kowats

SMC Storytellers - Rita Kowats

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 th...
October 21, 2018
Amy Epp

Bathsheba's #MeToo

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 ...
October 14, 2018
Hannah Notess

SMC Storytellers - Hannah Notess

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 harv...
October 14, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Final Words

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 wha...