by Melissa Kelly | Oct 9, 2022 | Fall 2022, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Desire, Bodies, and Sex, OH MY! No bones about it: Song of Songs is steamy. Before this sermon is through, we will acknowledge that people do, in fact, have sex. We will hear about desire and the clandestine rendezvous of lovers. We will learn that Pastor Megan has...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 25, 2022 | Amy Epp, Fall 2022, Sermons
Don’t Look Away: The Pain and Protest of Lamentations It feels bad to feel bad! So often feelings and embodiments of anger and despair are punished or policed – especially in women and people of color. Maybe that’s why we so often turn past the book...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 18, 2022 | Fall 2022, Megan Ramer, Sermons
A Time to Hear from One Another We encounter the timeless poetry of Ecclesiastes about the seasons of our lives. Pete Seeger iconically set this poetry to music so poignant and beautiful that it is known to nearly all of us. Like all good poetry, there is spaciousness...
by Melissa Kelly | Sep 11, 2022 | Fall 2022, Megan Ramer, Sermons
Ode to a Vaporous Life If all of life is “vanity” or breath or vapor, as the Teacher of Ecclesiastes repeats, is it then “perfectly pointless”? If life is unfair, inscrutable, beyond our control, and destined for the grave, as the Teacher describes, is it then...
by Melissa Kelly | Jul 3, 2022 | Debbie Bledsoe, Sermons, Summer Series 2022
What do we do about Leviticus? Leviticus is confusing. It wasn’t written to us or for us and we don’t even know who wrote it! Can we find some guidance for today in this text? Is it even relevant? Audio Preacher Debbie Bledsoe b Series Summer series, 2022 ...
