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...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 18, 2021 | Amy Epp, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Prophetic Youth, Priestly Elders The story of Samuel and Eli is a study in how to listen and relate not just to God but between generations. It’s easy for elders in the church to dismiss those who are young(er) as too inexperienced or idealistic to lead, and...
by Amy Epp | Jun 2, 2019 | Sermons
Don’t be an righteous tool, be a weapon of justice! With the armor of God, you too can do battle against the sin of white supremacy, racism and sexism. Sin’s power is strong but new life in Christ and with the grace of God, we are free to shake off that...
