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
Mother Hen Jesus
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SMC preachers
Jesus desires our ingathering, and we so often are not willing. Jesus goes belly up, like a fierce yet vulnerable mother hen in the presence of a fox, ready to take us under the shelter of her wings. Are we willing? And what might we learn from Jesus about lament?
Sermon begins at minute marker 6:00
Resources
- BibleWorm podcast: Episode 631 – A Lament Over Jerusalem, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr
- Barbara Brown Taylor, “As a Hen Gathers her Brood,” The Christian Century.
- Jewish Voices for Peace action: call your reps to demand the release of student activist and U.S. permanent resident, Mahmoud Khalil, abducted by the DHS on March 8, 2025.
- Image: “Christ the Mother Hen,” Kelly Latimore icons
- Hymn 298 - What Is the World Like. Text: Adam M. L. Tice (USA), 2009, © 2011 GIA Publications, Inc. Music: Sally Ann Morris (USA). Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.