by Melissa Kelly | Apr 21, 2024 | Easter, Liz Colver, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
The Gift of Disruption Just as the Jewish community at Thessalonica was disrupted by the arrival and teachings of Paul and Silas, so, too, are we disrupted by things we often don’t feel prepared for. What does it mean to look disruption in the eye and experience it...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 14, 2024 | Easter, Liz Colver, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Gifts of Interruption The crippled man and the disciples both experience surprise and interruption in the norms of what they think might happen for them this day. The man expected the same – people offering him coins or ignoring him. It has been the same day...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 7, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
At Spirit Pace In the aftermath of Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus offers comfort and presence to his disciples. He continues to remind them he has not come to establish a nation state, rather that the disciples would be the ones to carry forward Jesus’ mission....
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 17, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
God with Us News of wars, natural disaster, and human suffering greets us every evening, without fail. Where is God in this? Does God not see? Jesus warns his disciples of the temple’s destruction, and worse, yet to come. Indeed, God in Christ does see what human...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 10, 2024 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Jesus Observes the HOW of Money Struck by Mark’s mention that Jesus sits across from the treasury box in the Temple, observing HOW each person gives their money, Pastor Megan ponders what Jesus might observe in how SHE lives with her own money (and for this Way walked...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 3, 2024 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
The Political Power of Palms Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem is a deliberate act of political confrontation with the Roman Empire’s powers-that-be. After casing the mostly deserted late evening Temple, he makes plans to return the next day to make a royal mess of things;...
