by lee@seattlemennonite.org | Mar 7, 2021 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Bad at Math; Good at Parties Jesus’ parables contain an “excess of meaning” which makes preaching three of them on a single morning quite the challenge. What is one to do with the excess upon excess upon excess?? Instead of choosing just one sermon of the hundred...
by lee@seattlemennonite.org | Feb 28, 2021 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Truth, Lament, and Healing Jesus tells the truth about the violence his people were both experiencing and perpetrating. That truth-telling leads to lament: “Jerusalem, Jerusalem… How often have I desired to gather your children together as a hen gathers her brood...
by lee@seattlemennonite.org | Feb 21, 2021 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Plans & Unplans I make plans. I create checklists. Checking boxes on those checklists is one of my greatest joys. And I’m TOAST without my calendar and its checklists. But Luke’s gospel gives us two very familiar stories in a row (Jesus at the home of Martha...
by Amy Epp | Apr 14, 2019 | Amy Epp, Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 1
Hosanna! Save Us! The cries carry Jesus from the donkey on the road into the temple, where he answers the call to save by with healing. Children and youth are even now calling out “save us”. How may we respond with Christ-like action of action for...
by Megan Ramer | Mar 25, 2019 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Sermons
It’s our Gifts Discernment Sunday so there’s only time for a brief homily, but Pastor Megan dips her toes in yet another “weeping & gnashing of teeth” kin-dom of God parable from Matthew and wonders if what sounds like punishment might, in...
by Megan Ramer | Mar 10, 2019 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Pastor Megan dives into both the thorns and roses of Matthew 18 and dares to say a few things about the fraught and tender topic of forgiveness. Audio Preacher Megan M Ramer Series Narrative Lectionary – Year 1 – Lent Passage Matthew 18.15-35 Resources...
