by Melissa Kelly | Dec 24, 2023 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Infant Lowly Pastor Megan contemplates modern day child prophets and the purposefulness of God coming embodied as a lowly infant. She shares the story of young girls from our community acting on their convictions and their callings. Audio Preacher Megan M Ramer b...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 12, 2021 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
An Ingathering of the Supremely Good We start our new year with the Narrative Lectionary “In the [very] beginning…” (a very good place to start…). The first creation account, in Genesis chapter one, reveals a Creator God who creates and co-creates, makes and beckons...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 6, 2021 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Communicating and Consent Bartimaeus is blind and cries out asking Jesus to have mercy on him. Rather than assuming he knows what Bartimaeus means by ‘having mercy’, Jesus asks him a direct and open-ended question: “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus...
by Melissa Kelly | May 16, 2021 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Family Fruit Paul insists to the Galatians that all who follow Jesus are adoptees into the family of God and thus we receive our inheritance…not gold or property but Spiritual riches. As all adoptees know, family is the people who take care of you and who you...
by Melissa Kelly | May 9, 2021 | Easter, Jonathan Neufeld, Megan Ramer, Melanie Neufeld, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
A Community in Transition All of Acts is a story about a community / communities in transition; a story about finding a way together through much sorting and discerning; a story about claiming and releasing and improv; a story of a community’s long journey...
by Melissa Kelly | May 2, 2021 | Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
The Faith of an Ethiopian Eunuch At first blush, Philip seems to be the hero of this remarkable story in Acts, being willing to expand the circle of the Jesus-following community. Philip offered baptism to the Ethiopian eunuch, a gender-variant foreigner from a...
