SERMONS

Scott Morton Ninomiya Once in a blue moon I preach here at SJMC and today that is literally the case in the astronomical sense (it just happened at…

‘Welcoming’ Peace in Pentecost Acts 2:1-21 The Acts 2 story of Pentecost has not been one of the traditional scriptures Mennonites have turned to when…

Luke 4: 31-39, 40-44; Luke 5: 1-3, 12-16 Introduction Many of us watched NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) recent Artemis II…

Dialogue #1 – Mark Diller Harder and Don Penner Genesis 18:1-15 (Mark and Don go up on stage and sit on two stools. Have a dialogue) Mark: So Don…

I Have Seen The Lord! John 20:1-25 Introduction When my son was little, probably around age 5, I remember this one time we went for a hike as a…

John 12:12-27; 19:16b-22 Dramatic Reading (sermon part 1) What a week it was. I saw people starting to line the streets one day and soon heard the…

John 18:12-40 We are several Sundays into the season of Lent right now, the 6 weeks leading into Good Friday and Easter, the weeks where we follow the…

Dwelling in Dissonance: Belief and Uncertainty John 11:1-45 Entering the Season of Lent This week in our worship service we enter the stories and…

John 12:1-11, John 13:1-17 There is a famous quote about unknown unknowns that came from the mouth of United States Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld…