by Melissa Kelly | Jun 12, 2022 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Pentecost, Sermons
This sermon – about a semicolon – is a comma. We wrap up another Narrative Lectionary year with the lovely close of Paul’s letter to the community at Philippi. These words of encouragement, consolation, and assurance are bedside words: one can just as...
by Melissa Kelly | May 22, 2022 | Amy Epp, Easter, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
A Postcard from Prison Paul writes from prison in a tradition repeated since his time by many activists, scholars and prophets of the Gospel. But this letter is less prophetic and more a love letter to a beloved congregation. In the style of Paul’s letter to the...
by Melissa Kelly | May 8, 2022 | Megan Ramer, Narrative Lectionary - Year 4, Sermons
Singing Before the Miracle We zoom in on the powerful image of Paul and Silas, political prisoners, behind bars, surrounded by other prisoners listening to them, as they SING HYMNS to God. They are singing before the miracle. They are singing as strategy, as prayer,...
by Megan Ramer | Sep 6, 2020 | Sermons, zoom church
Common Life & Common Space We spend one final summer week with commentator Willie James Jennings, the Book of Acts, Paul imprisoned (yet again…), and the Holy Spirit calling Jesus-followers into common life and common space with one another. [sermon begins...
by Megan Ramer | May 17, 2020 | Megan Ramer, Sermons, zoom church
The Loooooove Chapter What can be said of 1 Corinthians 13, the “love chapter,” that you haven’t already heard at one hundred weddings? How might we refuse to dismiss it as just another smarmy love song, and instead live every more fully,...
