by Melissa Kelly | May 8, 2022 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Singing Before the Miracle We zoom in on the powerful image of Paul and Silas, political prisoners, behind bars, surrounded by other prisoners listening to them, as they SING HYMNS to God. They are singing before the miracle. They are singing as strategy, as prayer,...
by Megan Ramer | Sep 6, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Common Life & Common Space We spend one final summer week with commentator Willie James Jennings, the Book of Acts, Paul imprisoned (yet again…), and the Holy Spirit calling Jesus-followers into common life and common space with one another. [sermon begins...
by Megan Ramer | Jul 5, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons
Jailer, Jailed, Judge, Jury: None are free until all are free In our annual Interdependence Day worship – on the Sunday nearest the 4th – we again expose the lie of supposed independence, and instead claim the joy of justly-ordered mutual dependence and...
by Amy Epp | May 31, 2020 | Amy Epp, Sermons, zoom church
Burn and Breathe – Zoom Church In the days of protest, riot and rage over police violence against black people and the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade and many others, we gather for Pentecost. We call on the Holy Spirit to come with...
by Amy Epp | May 3, 2020 | Amy Epp, Sermons
Turning the World Upside Down – Zoom Church What does the Thessalonian community have to do with popular broadways musical Hamilton? Like the musical’s tribute to the battle of Yorktown, Paul’s arrival in Thessalonica shook up the established Jewish...