Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

...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...

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?

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.

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.

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.