by Melissa Kelly | Feb 5, 2023 | Epiphany, Megan Ramer, Sermons, Year W
Gathered Around A Campfire Jesus’ ability to choose his baptism matters. Our ability to choose baptism, to choose discipleship, to choose joining the the Jesus movement, to choose walking in the Way, to choose covenant with one another ALSO matters. Despite how it may...
by Melissa Kelly | May 22, 2022 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
A Postcard from Prison Paul writes from prison in a tradition repeated since his time by many activists, scholars and prophets of the Gospel. But this letter is less prophetic and more a love letter to a beloved congregation. In the style of Paul’s letter to the...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 30, 2022 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons, zoom church
A Jewish Man & Samaritan Woman Walk Into a Bar… Okay, they don’t precisely “walk into a bar”, but they do meet at their local “watering hole”… the well… literally a hole with water in it. Ha! Do I have your attention yet?! Two people like them are NOT...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 2, 2022 | Amy Epp, Christmas, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Discipleship is like the Spiderverse? This passage of John continues the story of the “Word Made Flesh” in John 1 with the story of Jesus’ first disciples. There are three things Pastor Amy can talk about in this passage: How the gospel of John is...
by Megan Ramer | Jan 24, 2021 | Megan Ramer, Sermons, zoom church
How brave it is to follow Today’s Scripture reflections feature Jesus, a heap of fish, and pondering the BRAVERY of following. That leads directly into Brenda Salter McNeil’s powerful storytelling of clergy in Ferguson in 2014 being asked by the young...
