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.
Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Resilience Through Difficulty
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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 persisted in crying for justice from an unjust judge who self-avowedly neither feared God nor respected people. As we emerge to resurrected life as a church community, may we grow in resilience and persistence - in the face of all that is different, hard, uncomfortable. And may we tune into the voices around us persistently crying for justice.
Series: Summer-Ordinary Time 2021
Scripture: Luke 18:1-8
Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.
- As We Rise, O God, to Meet You - Text: David Wright © 2005; Music: James E. Clemens © 2005
- Longing for Light - Text and Music: Bernadette Farrell © 1993
- We Your People Sing Your Praises - Text: Rebecca Mosley and Josephine Munyeli © 2013; Music: Salvatore Ferretti as sung in East Africa, harm. Mennonite Worship and Song Committee, 2019
Additional Resources
- “Hope for a Broken World,” written and performed by Michael Bade, used with permission
- Call to Worship: adapted from Nancy C. Townley, writing at Ministry Matters
- Land Acknowledgement: Real Rent Duwamish - https://www.realrentduwamish.org/
- Blessing our offerings: http://tinyurl.com/SMCoffering
- Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash