by Melissa Kelly | May 11, 2025 | Guest Speaker, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Spiritual Journeys + Taking Counsel Jesus left a legacy of stories, and as Luke ends and we reread Acts and the Epistles, we remember his disciples spread his teachings and established the church by telling his and their stories over and over. During worship this...
by Melissa Kelly | May 4, 2025 | Guest Speaker, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Worship + Discernment + Hospitality Jesus left a legacy of stories, and as Luke ends and we reread Acts and the Epistles, we remember his disciples spread his teachings and established the church by telling his and their stories over and over. During worship this...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 20, 2025 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Seeking the Living & Practicing Resurrection “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” sounds like a chastisement. Until we remember that the only reason that ANYone knows that Jesus’ tomb is empty is because a whole crew of faithful women showed up at the...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 13, 2025 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Prepare, Process, Weep Not a single palm frond or “Hosanna” in this year’s Palm Sunday reading. Luke’s version of Jesus’ procession toward and into Jerusalem instead records people throwing their coats on the ground. Rather than simply reaching for a fallen branch,...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 30, 2025 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Sermons
The Crevasse is Real This Lukan fable has a pretty clear message: Wealth creates an impassable crevasse between humans. Wealth is only one of the many things that can create impassable crevasses between people; so too can race and religion and immigration status, to...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 16, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Mother Hen Jesus Jesus desires our ingathering, and we so often are not willing. Jesus goes belly up, like a fierce yet vulnerable mother hen in the presence of a fox, ready to take us under the shelter of her wings. Are we willing? And what might we learn from Jesus...
