by Melissa Kelly | Dec 1, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
From Lament to a Nevertheless Hope Advent is a home for our longing that is at once ancient and new every day. We join our longing for the full inbreaking of God’s justice, peace, and liberating love to the longing of our forebears in the faith. Like them, we continue...
by Melissa Kelly | Oct 13, 2024 | Guest Speaker, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Hannah’s Dreamsong Hannah’s Song, often referred to as The Magnificat of the First Testament, is a collection of Hannah’s utopian dreams. She sings of a world where the bows of the warriors are broken and where God lifts the poor from the ash heap and sits them...
by Melissa Kelly | Dec 3, 2023 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 2, Sermons
Hope Has a Context Jeremiah pens some of the most beautiful words of hope to his community. But those hope-filled words are smack in the middle of horrors. Pan back even just a few verses, and one can see that Jeremiah is writing from prison, where his people are...
by Melissa Kelly | Nov 19, 2023 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 2, Sermons
Poetry The prophet Isaiah writes poetry: to express deep love between God and God’s beloveds, to convey heartache, to cleverly and poignantly pierce through word play, to evoke hope and catalyze action, to faithfully proclaim the truest nature of God. If poetry is...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 17, 2023 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 2, Sermons
I didn’t laugh. Yes, you did. We have all laughed at and with Sarah for as long as we’ve heard the story. An 80 year old woman giving birth!?! Pastor Megan challenges us to consider laughter. What impossible things do we laugh at? An end to hunger?...
