by Melissa Kelly | Oct 27, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Sacred Places & Spiritual Batteries Solomon sets out to build a house for God, as people across time and place have done over and over again. But even in the dedication prayer, Solomon acknowledges that God cannot be contained by a building, regardless of size or...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 13, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Hannah’s Dreamsong Hannah’s Song, often referred to as The Magnificat of the First Testament, is a collection of Hannah’s utopian dreams. She sings of a world where the bows of the warriors are broken and where God lifts the poor from the ash heap and sits them...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 6, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Symbols & Reputations The Hebrew people grow weary of their supposed leader leaving them behind, and – in Moses’ absence – they ask for a symbol to represent God? Replace God? Hold them together as a community in a very destabilized time? Unclear, but...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 29, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Love, Hatred, Suffering, and a Princess Dress A sermon about a 25 chapter novella, in three parts: 1) Joseph actually had an amazing technicolor princess dress, and isn’t that both telling and fabulous?! 2) Love unevenly distributed produces division, resentment, and...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 15, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Cosmos of Niblings Abram longs for a child that he believes God has denied him. God meets Abram in that specific need, but then leads him to a more expansive – even cosmic – view. This is a story that might be easier for aunties like me to understand: I...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 8, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Original Belovedness We start a new Narrative Lectionary year at a very good place to start: In the beginning… We begin with the genesis of all things, and it doesn’t take long for everything to devolve into deception, messing up, shame, hiding from God, and...
