by Melissa Kelly | Feb 15, 2026 | Epiphany, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Laughter, Outcasts, and Getting Things Wrong It’s another fraught healing story, so we say a few quiet parts out loud, e.g. OF COURSE SIN DOESN’T CAUSE DISABILITY! And then we notice a few key moments from the story of the man whose sight is restored by Jesus’ mud....
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 8, 2026 | Epiphany, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Don’t Build a Ramp into the Empire’s Pool When the systems of the Empire fail, we may follow our impulse to reform them; to make them more just. But our salvation will never ultimately come from the systems of Empire. We may (and must!) also follow the...
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...
