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...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 8, 2025 | Guest Speaker, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3
Covenanting Sunday 2025 Why here? Why now? A brief sharing of scripture and words from some of this year’s new covenanters. Audio Preacher Rita Kowats and new covenanters b Series Narrative Lectionary Year 3 Passage Acts 2:1-4, 42-47 Resources — None...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 1, 2025 | Easter, Guest Speaker, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3
Creation Care + Justice for Oppressed People Jesus left a legacy of stories, and as Luke ends and we reread Acts and the Epistles, we remember his disciples spread his teachings and established the church by telling his and their stories over and over. During worship...
by Melissa Kelly | May 25, 2025 | Easter, Guest Speaker, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3
Relationships + Economics Jesus left a legacy of stories, and as Luke ends and we reread Acts and the Epistles, we remember his disciples spread his teachings and established the church by telling his and their stories over and over. During worship this Eastertide...
