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.

June 17, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Seeds Grow

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 whi...
June 10, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Misfits

Reflecting on Mark's story of Jesus facing accusers very early in his ministry, Pastor Megan explore how "Scribes ... they're just like us!", has a few words to say about the su...
May 27, 2018
Megan M Ramer

A Collage of God

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.
May 20, 2018
SMC preachers

I Will Put My Spirit Within You

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...
May 13, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Goodbyes

All goodbyes are not created equal. Listen as Pastor Megan reflects on a couple of the goodbyes she's experienced, her semi-obsession with good goodbyes, and what we can learn a...
April 29, 2018
Melanie Nuefeld

Building Social Capital

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 n...
April 22, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Other Sheep

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 metaphor...
April 08, 2018
Megan M Ramer

In Strides Jesus

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 stri...
April 01, 2018
Jonathan Neufeld

Can anything good come out of a trap house?

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, ...
March 25, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Cross and the Lynching Tree

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...
March 18, 2018
Jason Rust

Glory & Death

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 ju...
March 11, 2018
Megan M Ramer

A Slithering Slew of Venomous Vipers

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 ...
March 07, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Small Things Matter

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 ...
February 25, 2018
Pastor Amy Epp

Names That Are True

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 comprehen...
February 18, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Lament & A Rainbow Promise for All

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 t...
February 04, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Joining My Voice

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 c...
January 28, 2018
John Stoesz

Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Land Left & Return

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 ...
January 28, 2018
John Stoesz

Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Ethnicide

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 ...
January 28, 2018
Waziyatawin

Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Ecocide

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 ...
January 28, 2018
Waziyatawin

Naming Injustice to Find Justice: Genocide

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 ...
January 21, 2018
Megan M Ramer

Zebedee: Abandoned

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...
January 09, 2018
SMC preachers

Light Quality

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 ...
December 17, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Joy in the midst of chaos

How to preach joy on the week when one of our beloved friends has died ... and far too young?
December 11, 2017
Seattle Mennonite Church

God be with you till we meet again
December 06, 2017
Seattle Mennonite Church

Abide with me

Hymnal: A Worship Book 653
December 03, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Hope in the midst of chaos

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....
November 19, 2017
Megan M Ramer

What God Requires

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. P...
November 12, 2017
Megan M Ramer

A Plaintiff God

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. T...
November 05, 2017
Pastor Amy Marie Epp

Stranger Things

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 cu...
October 22, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Final Messages

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.
October 15, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Family

Pastor Megan continues our worship adventure with the church at Corinth with a reflection on chapter 12, Paul's use of the familiar Greco-Roman body metaphor with a significant ...
October 09, 2017
SMC preachers

Over Her Own Head.mp3

Pastor Amy reflects on men and women, hair and head coverings, praying and prophesying. What does it mean to be faithful?
October 01, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Foundation

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...
September 24, 2017
Pastor Amy Epp

Food: Communion Economics

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...
September 17, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Foolishness

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...
September 10, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Not Fair

Pastor Megan reflects on the parable of the day laborers from Matthew 20.1-16, the lack of fairness in life (no one said it would be...), and the (sometimes annoying) generosity...
August 27, 2017
Rex Rempel

Beloved

Rex Rempel auctioned off a sermon on the topic of bid-winner's choosing to support our youth traveling to Orlando for the Mennonite Church USA gathering. Pete Lagerwey won the b...
August 06, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Rich Food

Pastor Megan reflects on packing for a 7-day backpacking trip, Isaiah's prophetic encouragement to eat what is good and delight in rich foods, the life (and imminent death) of o...
July 30, 2017
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2017-07-30 Ordinary and Subversive AME.m4a

The reign of the loving God sneaks in and gets in the way and grows and is a nuisance. But it’s so sweet!
July 23, 2017
Caitlin, Zach, Alex

God's Heart

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 tre...
July 09, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Reflections from MCUSA in Orlando

Pastor Megan shares some stories and initial reflections from her time at the biennial gathering of Mennonite Church USA in Orlando, July 4-8.
July 02, 2017
Amy Epp

It Takes Two to Tango

Pastor Amy reflects on our interdependence in this weekend of celebrating July 4th and the nation telling us how independent we should be.
June 18, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Gutsy Compassion

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 ri...
June 04, 2017
Megan M Ramer

The Alchemy of Quilting & Community

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 dis...
May 28, 2017
Amy Marie Epp

Wait, Worship, Witness

"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...
May 07, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Calling Cows & Listening for God

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 voic...
April 30, 2017
Pastor Amy Marie Epp

We Had Hoped

Pastor Amy explores the place between disappointment and hope with the disciples who encounter the risen Jesus on the road and at the table.
April 16, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Proximity & Proclamation: For MJ Sharp

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 ...
April 09, 2017
Megan M Ramer

Procession of the Ridiculous

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 Jeru...
April 02, 2017
Sarah Sommers & Megan M Ramer

Interview with Sarah Sommers

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 enco...