by Melissa Kelly | Mar 9, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Guts, Listening, and Urgency One familiar story which contains a familiar parable flows into another familiar story. Is there anything at all new to say about the Samaritan that’s called “good” or the Mary and Martha sisterly tiff? Unclear. But given our deep dive...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 16, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Orthopraxy and a Faith That Sues the President Fetus John the Baptist knew exactly who Jesus was, according to Luke. Adult John the Baptist sends emissaries to ask Jesus who he is. Jesus does not answer John’s question, but rather instructs the question-askers to...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 9, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Gut Impulse for Compassion Jesus sees a woman and is moved with compassion to respond. But what about all the other women, humans, creatures, who also needed his compassionate response??? And what about the root causes of her suffering – Shouldn’t he have...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 2, 2025 | Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, Tyler Merrill
Sabbath Sanctuary Sabbath was to be the fountain around which the garden of all public life and policy grew in ancient Israel. On six days the people were to work, tending that garden, ensuring its health and growth and accessibility to all people, and on the seventh...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 26, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Saying Yes & No With Ancestors Three major commemorations converged last week: the birth of the Anabaptist movement, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (and the broader movement of which he was part, including our Anabaptist ancestors, Rosemarie and Vincent...
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...
