by Melissa Kelly | Apr 20, 2025 | Easter, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Seeking the Living & Practicing Resurrection “Why do you seek the living among the dead?” sounds like a chastisement. Until we remember that the only reason that ANYone knows that Jesus’ tomb is empty is because a whole crew of faithful women showed up at the...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 13, 2025 | Lent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Prepare, Process, Weep Not a single palm frond or “Hosanna” in this year’s Palm Sunday reading. Luke’s version of Jesus’ procession toward and into Jerusalem instead records people throwing their coats on the ground. Rather than simply reaching for a fallen branch,...
by Melissa Kelly | Apr 6, 2025 | Guest Speaker, Lent, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Ask, and climb trees. Join Rita Kowats as she explores the stories of Jesus healing the blind man and seeing Zaccheus. What lessons can we learn from (literally) blind faith and a spiritual curiosity that leads to climbing trees? Audio Preacher Rita Kowats b...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 16, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Mother Hen Jesus Jesus desires our ingathering, and we so often are not willing. Jesus goes belly up, like a fierce yet vulnerable mother hen in the presence of a fox, ready to take us under the shelter of her wings. Are we willing? And what might we learn from Jesus...
by Melissa Kelly | Feb 16, 2025 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Orthopraxy and a Faith That Sues the President Fetus John the Baptist knew exactly who Jesus was, according to Luke. Adult John the Baptist sends emissaries to ask Jesus who he is. Jesus does not answer John’s question, but rather instructs the question-askers to...
