by Melissa Kelly | Oct 27, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Sacred Places & Spiritual Batteries Solomon sets out to build a house for God, as people across time and place have done over and over again. But even in the dedication prayer, Solomon acknowledges that God cannot be contained by a building, regardless of size or...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 20, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Sermons
Cosmic Living Cathedral Whether in tents or temples, God is present and abiding with the Israelites and their descendants. God’s living promise is a loving extensive, generational commitment/covenant among, between and with us just as we are: the only tabernacle...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 13, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Hannah’s Dreamsong Hannah’s Song, often referred to as The Magnificat of the First Testament, is a collection of Hannah’s utopian dreams. She sings of a world where the bows of the warriors are broken and where God lifts the poor from the ash heap and sits them...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 6, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Symbols & Reputations The Hebrew people grow weary of their supposed leader leaving them behind, and – in Moses’ absence – they ask for a symbol to represent God? Replace God? Hold them together as a community in a very destabilized time? Unclear, but...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 29, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Love, Hatred, Suffering, and a Princess Dress A sermon about a 25 chapter novella, in three parts: 1) Joseph actually had an amazing technicolor princess dress, and isn’t that both telling and fabulous?! 2) Love unevenly distributed produces division, resentment, and...
