by Melissa Kelly | May 5, 2024 | Easter, Guest Speaker, Sermons
One Parish One Prisoner There is one church for every prisoner in Washington State. Chris Hoke from One Parish One Prisoner brings reflections on the challenges and blessings of working with churches and prisoners. Audio Preacher Chris Hoke b Series Eastertide ...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 28, 2024 | Easter, Liz Colver, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
The Power of Relationship Relationships are a primary nourishment and fuel for a transformed community. Paul wrote letters only AFTER he engaged in relationship making. His work was able to flourish because he seeded intentional relationships with people that...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 21, 2024 | Easter, Liz Colver, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
The Gift of Disruption Just as the Jewish community at Thessalonica was disrupted by the arrival and teachings of Paul and Silas, so, too, are we disrupted by things we often don’t feel prepared for. What does it mean to look disruption in the eye and experience it...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 14, 2024 | Easter, Liz Colver, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Gifts of Interruption The crippled man and the disciples both experience surprise and interruption in the norms of what they think might happen for them this day. The man expected the same – people offering him coins or ignoring him. It has been the same day...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 7, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
At Spirit Pace In the aftermath of Jesus’ death and resurrection, Jesus offers comfort and presence to his disciples. He continues to remind them he has not come to establish a nation state, rather that the disciples would be the ones to carry forward Jesus’ mission....
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 24, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Lent, Sermons
Costly Extravagant Love Jesus lives an increasingly life of truth-telling to civic and religious authorities. All the while he enfolds the marginalized and oppressed into a just and merciful embrace of care and love, calling disciples to do the same. Up to his...
