by Melissa Kelly | Apr 13, 2025 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Prepare, Process, Weep Not a single palm frond or “Hosanna” in this year’s Palm Sunday reading. Luke’s version of Jesus’ procession toward and into Jerusalem instead records people throwing their coats on the ground. Rather than simply reaching for a fallen branch,...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 6, 2025 | Guest Speaker, Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Ask, and climb trees. Join Rita Kowats as she explores the stories of Jesus healing the blind man and seeing Zaccheus. What lessons can we learn from (literally) blind faith and a spiritual curiosity that leads to climbing trees? Audio Preacher Rita Kowats b...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 30, 2025 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Sermons
The Crevasse is Real This Lukan fable has a pretty clear message: Wealth creates an impassable crevasse between humans. Wealth is only one of the many things that can create impassable crevasses between people; so too can race and religion and immigration status, to...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 23, 2025 | Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, Tyler Merrill
Memory and Prophecy In today’s parable, Death came to the youngest son, in that far-off land, and asked its question. “I see you’ve become destitute,” said Death. “Here you are very far from home, with no money and no friends. Now that even the pigs eat better than...
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 | Mar 17, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
God with Us News of wars, natural disaster, and human suffering greets us every evening, without fail. Where is God in this? Does God not see? Jesus warns his disciples of the temple’s destruction, and worse, yet to come. Indeed, God in Christ does see what human...
