by Melissa Kelly | Jun 6, 2021 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Communicating and Consent Bartimaeus is blind and cries out asking Jesus to have mercy on him. Rather than assuming he knows what Bartimaeus means by ‘having mercy’, Jesus asks him a direct and open-ended question: “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus...
by Amy Epp | Jun 1, 2021 | Sermons
Resurrection, not Resuscitation Looking to the sacred text of John’s gospel, and the sacred text of creation, Pastor Megan ponders resurrection as not only a powerful Way of Life, but specifically as we emerge from the worst of the pandemic and begin our journey of...
by Megan Ramer | May 23, 2021 | Sermons, zoom church
Gathered & Sent – A Communal Sermon The Holy Spirit comes to a community in the Pentecost story. And so we hear Scriptural reflections from our community. Pastor Megan shares what our Spiritual Leadership Team noticed and wondered about together as we dwelt...
by Melissa Kelly | May 16, 2021 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
Family Fruit Paul insists to the Galatians that all who follow Jesus are adoptees into the family of God and thus we receive our inheritance…not gold or property but Spiritual riches. As all adoptees know, family is the people who take care of you and who you...
by Melissa Kelly | May 9, 2021 | Easter, Jonathan Neufeld, Megan Ramer, Melanie Neufeld, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
A Community in Transition All of Acts is a story about a community / communities in transition; a story about finding a way together through much sorting and discerning; a story about claiming and releasing and improv; a story of a community’s long journey...
by Melissa Kelly | May 2, 2021 | Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons, zoom church
The Faith of an Ethiopian Eunuch At first blush, Philip seems to be the hero of this remarkable story in Acts, being willing to expand the circle of the Jesus-following community. Philip offered baptism to the Ethiopian eunuch, a gender-variant foreigner from a...
