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!”...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 7, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
You Are Like Trees Planted by Streams of Water We are gathered back in for singing and praying, formation and feasting. We kick off our artful fall worship with a Psalm; a very good place to start. And we receive from Psalmist, artist, poet, and preacher a blessing...
by Melissa Kelly | Jul 27, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
When Praise is Political In the Bible? Praise is nearly always political. Certainly in the book of Revelation where crying out “Salvation belongs to our God” is a direct affront to the Emporer of Rome who claims salvation comes soley through him and his “Pax Romana”....
