by Melissa Kelly | Feb 22, 2026 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
First Lines & Buried Seeds Not all is as MEH as it first appears when John embarks on the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. Palm fronds and an ancient plea turned praise adorn the political street theatre of Jesus astride a baby donkey. It calls to mind the...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 15, 2026 | Epiphany, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Laughter, Outcasts, and Getting Things Wrong It’s another fraught healing story, so we say a few quiet parts out loud, e.g. OF COURSE SIN DOESN’T CAUSE DISABILITY! And then we notice a few key moments from the story of the man whose sight is restored by Jesus’ mud....
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 8, 2026 | Epiphany, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Don’t Build a Ramp into the Empire’s Pool When the systems of the Empire fail, we may follow our impulse to reform them; to make them more just. But our salvation will never ultimately come from the systems of Empire. We may (and must!) also follow the...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 30, 2025 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Only the Hopeless Needs Hope Is there anything more lifeless than a valley full of dried bones? From the skeletal ruins of life that used to be, a collage of hope for the start of Advent. Because here’s the thing about hope: it makes the most sense and is the most...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 29, 2025 | Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, Tyler Merrill
Through the Veil: The Beast of the Poet of Patmos The title Revelation comes from the Greek word apokálypsi, or ‘apocalypse’, which in Greek means literally, the lifting of the veil. Ordinarily, a veil conceals or obscures that which lies beyond it, and when the veil...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 15, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Revelation and Resistance: No Kings In our first of a six-week series on “Revelation and Resistance,” we step – with some well earned fear and trembling – into the wild, the wondrous, the terrifying, the evocative world of apocalyptic literature. With so...
