by Melissa Kelly | Jan 12, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Treasonous, Heretical, Communal Baptism There’s lots going on in this story from Luke, and also in this sermon from Pastor Megan, and also in the story of our Anabaptist roots, and also in the congregational life of Seattle Mennonite Church. It’s all a bit of a...
by Melissa Kelly | Dec 29, 2024 | Christmas, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, Tyler Merrill
Birthday Candles Since at least the 4th century, Simeon’s prayer has been among the last words spoken by Christians each night before the candles of evening prayer are extinguished. His words are the incense the church has sought to breathe while falling asleep and...
by Melissa Kelly | Dec 22, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
And Yet More Love As we wait for God’s “Big L” Liberating Love to be fully realized, we are called to BE God’s love of ourselves, for one another, and for all creation. We enter the story of Mary, and then Mary with Elizabeth, to see how this love begets more love and...
by Melissa Kelly | Dec 1, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
From Lament to a Nevertheless Hope Advent is a home for our longing that is at once ancient and new every day. We join our longing for the full inbreaking of God’s justice, peace, and liberating love to the longing of our forebears in the faith. Like them, we continue...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 17, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Singing our Holy Holy Holies What does it mean to sing “Holy holy holy is God” NOT to God, but to one another? Might Isaiah’s magnificent and poetic imagery of the seraphim singing their praise of God’s holiness TO one another be received as an invitation to do the...
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...
