by Melissa Kelly | Feb 25, 2024 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Screaming for Mercy The cries of the suffering are not always polite. When we are suffering, can we let loose and trust our community to hold us? When our neighbors are suffering, can we build our resilience in the face of their screams for justice, for relief, for...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 4, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Woman Gets ALL the Healings I can talk about a woman who experiences a minimum of three healings in one healing story. The first is busting through all sorts of internal and external barriers to step out her door and into a crowd. The second is reaching for the hem...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 28, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Liberator(s) of LEGION Tempted to avert our gaze from the mention of “evil spirit” or “demon”, instead Pastor Megan chooses to hold this story’s gaze and look for what may be true… then and now. What is true? What binds humans is indeed legion. What liberates humans...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 5, 2024 | Christmas, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Potent Confluence When the writer of Luke’s gospel litters his stories with the names of politicians and references to their political maneuverings, we are meant to pay attention. When the tale of a 12-year-old Jesus choosing to remain in the temple occurs DURING...
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 | Dec 17, 2023 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Commingling All of the people shouted with praise to God because the foundation of God’s house had been laid. But many of the older priests and Levites and heads of families, who had seen the first house, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this house, although...