by Melissa Kelly | Oct 6, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Symbols & Reputations The Hebrew people grow weary of their supposed leader leaving them behind, and – in Moses’ absence – they ask for a symbol to represent God? Replace God? Hold them together as a community in a very destabilized time? Unclear, but...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 29, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Love, Hatred, Suffering, and a Princess Dress A sermon about a 25 chapter novella, in three parts: 1) Joseph actually had an amazing technicolor princess dress, and isn’t that both telling and fabulous?! 2) Love unevenly distributed produces division, resentment, and...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 15, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
A Cosmos of Niblings Abram longs for a child that he believes God has denied him. God meets Abram in that specific need, but then leads him to a more expansive – even cosmic – view. This is a story that might be easier for aunties like me to understand: I...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 8, 2024 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 3, Sermons
Original Belovedness We start a new Narrative Lectionary year at a very good place to start: In the beginning… We begin with the genesis of all things, and it doesn’t take long for everything to devolve into deception, messing up, shame, hiding from God, and...
by Melissa Kelly | May 26, 2024 | Liz Colver, Sermons
Making the World Cultures and traditions – including religions – all have multiple creation stories. Today we hear one from our scriptures told in Genesis, and our sermon shares another one – in the form of the children’s book “Big Momma Makes the...
