by Melissa Kelly | Dec 22, 2024 | Advent, Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
And Yet More Love As we wait for God’s “Big L” Liberating Love to be fully realized, we are called to BE God’s love of ourselves, for one another, and for all creation. We enter the story of Mary, and then Mary with Elizabeth, to see how this love begets more love and...
by Melissa Kelly | Mar 24, 2024 | Charlene Epp, Easter, Lent, Sermons
Costly Extravagant Love Jesus lives an increasingly life of truth-telling to civic and religious authorities. All the while he enfolds the marginalized and oppressed into a just and merciful embrace of care and love, calling disciples to do the same. Up to his...
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 | 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 | Jan 29, 2023 | Megan Ramer, Sermons, Year W
Heart Treasures & 12-Year-Olds This sermon is a wondering, a story, a reflection, and – at the last – a blessing. A wondering about the treasures stored in Mary’s heart. A story about an aunt and her nephew ice skating. A reflection about Jesus at...