by Melissa Kelly | Dec 1, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
From Lament to a Nevertheless Hope Advent is a home for our longing that is at once ancient and new every day. We join our longing for the full inbreaking of God’s justice, peace, and liberating love to the longing of our forebears in the faith. Like them, we continue...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 24, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Sermons
Released to give and to receive Jesus equips the disciples with power and authority, and then sends them to their ministries with no bread, no staff, no money, not even an extra shirt – nothing. Why? As we prepare to release Tyler to his ministry as our Pastor...
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 | Nov 10, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Sermons
Universal Saving One Jonah sought to protect his own people when God’s compassion and mercy were to extend to the repentant beyond Israel’s borders. Fairness, justice and truth are to be balanced with compassion and mercy by God’s definition and ways rather than our...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 3, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Unlikely Dependencies = God’s Provision What happens when a raven and a prophet form a little community of care? How about a Hebrew man and Phoenician widow – across religious and political divides? According to our storyteller, the needs of all are met, and 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...
