by Megan Ramer | Jan 12, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Movement & Trouble We are just starting our journey with Jesus through Mark’s gospel, and already there’s a pattern to his movement: margins –> centers of power –> get into / cause trouble –> retreat to margins for prayer...
by Megan Ramer | Dec 23, 2019 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Longing for Liberation An Advent sermon about longing and liberation, scrooge-y Zechariah and prophetic singing, despair and hope. Pastor Megan tosses out her written manuscript and dives deeper into why Advent is her truest spiritual home, and why she can’t do...
by Megan Ramer | Dec 1, 2019 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Sermons Jeremiah writes as his nation crumbles around him – from a prison in occupied Jerusalem, on the brink of the mass deportation of his people. Which makes his words of promise for justice and hope that God is making things right throughout the land...
by Megan Ramer | Nov 24, 2019 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Sermons Okay, so Hilkiah isn’t *actually* Indiana Jones, but a whole epic adventure begins when he is sent on a mission into the under-construction temple and (re-)discovers the lost book of the law. Hearers of the lost-and-found-again scroll, including King...
by Megan Ramer | Nov 17, 2019 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Megan Ramer In startling twists: 1) cockroaches will apparently NOT be the last ones standing in a global apocalypse, 2) like a screeching record, a love ballad delivers lyrics of divine judgment, and 3) despite our best (read: worst) efforts, God’s hope in us...
by Megan Ramer | Nov 10, 2019 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Megan Ramer If you’ve ever found yourself on the pointy end of betrayal, I bet you’d tell a story of someone you loved. Or love still. So it is with God and God’s people – at the time of the prophet Hosea and now. How can we ever come back from...
