by Melissa Kelly | Feb 25, 2024 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Screaming for Mercy The cries of the suffering are not always polite. When we are suffering, can we let loose and trust our community to hold us? When our neighbors are suffering, can we build our resilience in the face of their screams for justice, for relief, for...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 19, 2023 | Dustin Wilsor, Lent, Sermons, Year W
It’s You I Like John 3:16 is much loved by many & much detested by many others. This Laetare Sunday, Dustin looks beyond verse 16 to find a way to rejoice in it. Audio Preacher Dustin Wilsor b Series Lent, Year W Passage Song of Solomon 4.7-16; Psalm...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 26, 2022 | Amy Epp, Sermons, Summer Series 2022
Cancel all debt. Period The law in Deuteronomy is clear: every seven year all debt is to be canceled. But because people are people, it’s pretty hard to live it out practically. What the law depends on and encourages is building a community of trust in which we...
by Melissa Kelly | Jun 12, 2022 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Pentecost, Sermons
This sermon – about a semicolon – is a comma. We wrap up another Narrative Lectionary year with the lovely close of Paul’s letter to the community at Philippi. These words of encouragement, consolation, and assurance are bedside words: one can just as...
by Melissa Kelly | Jan 9, 2022 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Reading John With Care We are now a few weeks into the mystical, strange, poetic, beautiful, mysterious, harrowing, polemical, and prophetic Gospel of John. Since we’ll be slowly walking through John’s gospel for the next several months, it seems important to address...