by Melissa Kelly | Nov 10, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Sermons
Universal Saving One Jonah sought to protect his own people when God’s compassion and mercy were to extend to the repentant beyond Israel’s borders. Fairness, justice and truth are to be balanced with compassion and mercy by God’s definition and ways rather than our...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 20, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Sermons
Cosmic Living Cathedral Whether in tents or temples, God is present and abiding with the Israelites and their descendants. God’s living promise is a loving extensive, generational commitment/covenant among, between and with us just as we are: the only tabernacle...
by Melissa Kelly | May 12, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Sermons
Faith-Filled Tension Paul binds the physical body with resurrection, a holistic change from life as we have structured and understood it to that which is eternal as Jesus life, death and resurrection gifted us. Our faith is intricately tied to a belief in the...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 7, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
At Spirit Pace In the aftermath of Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus offers comfort and presence to his disciples. He continues to remind them he has not come to establish a nation state, rather that the disciples would be the ones to carry forward Jesus’ mission....
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 24, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Lent, Sermons
Costly Extravagant Love Jesus lives an increasingly life of truth-telling to civic and religious authorities. All the while he enfolds the marginalized and oppressed into a just and merciful embrace of care and love, calling disciples to do the same. Up to his...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 18, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Shifting Our Expectations Jesus’ guide for discipleship invites us to rethink our expectations of what discipleship means and who disciples are. Embedded in the invitation is a deep look meeting the soul of our being with enduring love and perpetual hospitality to...
