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...
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...
