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 | Nov 23, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Dragons Are Real This weird and fantastical vision is a story of the reality of forces of destruction and death, the bravery of creating and giving life in the midst of those forces, and the desire of God that life be protected and lifegivers nourished. This weird and...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 26, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Embraced by Divine Love Through the ancient prophet Isaiah, God speaks to a people in exile: You are precious, you are honored, I love you. Through contemporary Anabaptist prophets of art and poetry (see credits below!), we too hear God’s voice reminding us that we...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 5, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Dreaming the Impossible What if God still dreams? What if that’s the truest, surest thing we can say and know: God is still dreaming? What if we devote ourselves, collectively, with dreaming beyond the probable, beyond the ‘realistic’, beyond even the possible? What...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 21, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Let a Stone be a Stone? In which an Ebenezer appears in this sermon’s starring role. An Ebenezer is a stone erected in remembrance of a person or an experience or a place where something special happened. In 1 Samuel, the Hebrew people set up an Ebenezer to...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 14, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Shiprah. Puah. Praise! When fearful, powerful rulers order death, may we all reach for the tools handed to us from our courageous, life-bringing foremothers in the faith: Shiphrah and Puah. “Learn them: Shif-rah. Pu-ah. Praise! Let them again be household names!”...
