by Melissa Kelly | Apr 24, 2022 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Sent to Share Life Yes, it’s exceedingly unfair that Thomas gets such a bad rap. But that’s a sermon that’s been preached a thousand times, including several times by Pastor Megan. Instead, this week she dives deep into what she’d always previously glossed right over....
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 17, 2022 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Mary Stayed Death may not be the end of the story, but death is in the story. Like many of us, Mary is deeply feeling grief, loss and trauma after the loss of a beloved friend. She goes to the tomb, sad and disoriented and from the midst of those feelings, she...
by Melissa Kelly | May 16, 2021 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Family Fruit Paul insists to the Galatians that all who follow Jesus are adoptees into the family of God and thus we receive our inheritance…not gold or property but Spiritual riches. As all adoptees know, family is the people who take care of you and who you...
by Melissa Kelly | May 9, 2021 | Easter, Jonathan Neufeld, Megan Ramer, Melanie Neufeld, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
A Community in Transition All of Acts is a story about a community / communities in transition; a story about finding a way together through much sorting and discerning; a story about claiming and releasing and improv; a story of a community’s long journey...
by Melissa Kelly | May 2, 2021 | Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
The Faith of an Ethiopian Eunuch At first blush, Philip seems to be the hero of this remarkable story in Acts, being willing to expand the circle of the Jesus-following community. Philip offered baptism to the Ethiopian eunuch, a gender-variant foreigner from a...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 18, 2021 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Dispute Arose Acts tells us that as the community of disciples grew in number, “a dispute arose…” Not shocking for any of us who have ever been part of any human community: As numbers grow, disputes are surely to arise! This story of the early Jesus-following...