by Melissa Kelly | Apr 3, 2022 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
The Carceral System Sucks We are in our third week in a row of Jesus’ trial, and the story is getting increasingly painful to endure. If we stick with it enough to actually take it in, to allow ourselves to feel all we feel, we might notice that – while horrific...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 21, 2021 | Amy Epp, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Light is Complicated The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. But light is complicated. It can burn and glare. The familiar and beloved song from the prophet is about military conquest and might, a leader whose rule is absolute. Yet it still...
by Megan Ramer | Dec 13, 2020 | Jonathan Neufeld, Megan Ramer, Sermons, zoom church
Oaks of Righteousness Seeds are germinated and nurtured in the deep dark black of soil. A newly liberated people draws on this rich metaphor in understanding how God’s jubilee vision grows in them: from tender shoots of justice and praise, into oaks of...
by Megan Ramer | Dec 7, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons, zoom church
Seeing (differently) in the Dark Anyone who has gone hiking or walking in the nighttime knows that darkness doesn’t lead to not seeing; darkness leads to seeing differently. The prophet Joel writes that God’s mothering, raven Spirit will be poured out on...
by Amy Epp | Nov 29, 2020 | Amy Epp, Sermons
In the Den with the Lions In this worship we begin exploring in the dark. So much of the time language and culture teaches that all that is good and right an beautiful is full of light and all that is evil and terrible is dark. And thus that dark is something to...
