Sermons by Tina Melusky
22 Jun 2025
2nd Sunday of PentecostJune 22, 2025Luke 8.26-39 For as long as I can remember, I have always been afraid of something. And yes, I know, everyone is afraid of something, but this is like, from the time I can remember amongst the myriad of run of the mill fears—spiders, snakes, etc.,–my brain has always honed in one at any given time. When I was itty bitty, it was thunderstorms. I hated them, would get nervous anytime the weather got sketchy. My parents got me a stuffed…
15 Jun 2025
Holy Trinity/ConfirmationJune 15, 2025Romans 5.1-5 We’re going to play a little trivia this morning to get into the two stories that I want to share. I’ve got a question for our baseball enthusiasts and a question for our Broadway enthusiasts. So let’s go baseball first. What pitcher gave his name, rather unfortunately, to the surgery that is utilized to reconstruct a player’s ulnar collateral ligament? Bingo. Tommy John. Ok, my Broadway folks, the role of Elphaba was played by whom in the original Broadway cast…
08 Jun 2025
PentecostJune 8, 2025Acts 2.1-21 There had to have been at least one. At least. In a see of thousands of people, it is more than likely that there was more than one, one person who wondered what on earth they were doing there. But…it’s Pentecost…it’s a high holy day. It’s fifty days after Passover and this is just what you do. You go to Jerusalem, you go to the Temple, you go and worship amongst your community of people, even if you aren’t sure they’re your…
01 Jun 2025
7th Sunday of EasterJune 1, 2025John 17.20-26 I think by now you all know that Jennifer, Kristin, and I are a pretty stalwart unit. We are not the siblings with years of jealousy and nit-picking behind us that now as we’re older we have to get over. We don’t have that one big thing sitting in our past that has never been dealt with. We’re just we three. Generally, we like the same movies, we listen to the same music, we’re different for sure, but…
25 May 2025
6th Sunday of EasterMay 25, 2025Acts 16.9-15 The other night I decided to take up a recommendation from a podcast that I love and watch the movie Brittany Runs a Marathon. I had never heard of it before, but it was billed as funny, relaxed, just a good time movie about running. Coming off of Girls on the Run season, I was like this sounds great, and then an hour and 45 minutes later, I was laying on my couch crying, because this fun,…
11 May 2025
4th Sunday of EasterMay 11, 2025Acts 9.36-43 Some of you may remember a sermon I did about a year ago about a book I had read where one of the main character’s mantras was, “Grace costs nothing,” well this morning we are here for part two featuring the second book in this series. Thank God for authors and memorable turns of phrase. Yours Truly centers around Jacob and Bri, two emergency room doctors struggling in the midst of brutal hours, heartbreak, familial drama, and…
27 Apr 2025
2nd Sunday of Easter April 27, 2025 John 20.19-31 Ever since he was little Felix has always brought an unexpected profundity to his faith. For as long as I can remember, he has always come up with just the most random, thought-provoking questions about God, about the world, and how it all works. We joke that he will be the next pastor amongst us, that’s the level of depth these questions are at. Let me tell you, the joy I got when Jennifer started seminary so…
20 Apr 2025
EasterApril 20, 2025Luke 24.1-12 I want you to take a journey with me back to President’s Day 2025. It is a decently comfortable day outside, a little chilly, but not awful. We are only a couple of days out from Jim Cantore levels of snow apparently, and I have one final task that I need to get done before the house goes on the market on Thursday: I have to get the leaves in the backyard bagged up. Full confession,…
13 Apr 2025
Palm SundayApril 13, 2025Luke 19.28-40 Let me take you back almost nine months, to a basketball arena in New Orleans. It’s the first full night of the Gathering, and our youth have had a day. After a disastrous accompaniment morning that was just all kinds of shades of not good, we had then experienced penguins and stingrays and butterflies at the aquarium, hauled all the way across the city for a several hours long rehearsal for our mass cast performance,…
02 Mar 2025
TransfigurationMarch 2, 2025Luke 9.28-43a When I was in middle school I somehow ended up on our school’s Science Olympiad team, despite the fact that science wasn’t particularly my jam and practices happened during the same time that I had volleyball practice. When I think about it now, the concept seems kind of fun, but at the time my younger self was mostly annoyed at having to juggle the responsibility. The whole idea was essentially like the Olympics for middle school…
23 Feb 2025
7th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 23, 2025Genesis 45.3-11, 15 There are a lot of things I love about living in Virginia. Before this weekend, I would have said the mild winters, but here we are with more snow than I’ve seen in eons, even in Michigan. No, I have come to love so much about living here, but y’all (see? I even love saying y’all now), I have one really big pet peeve, and some of you know this because you’ve…
16 Feb 2025
6th Sunday after EpiphanyFebruary 16, 2025Luke 6.17-26 I confess this morning that…I’m tired. I mean, you know all know me, so you know, generally, I’m always sleepy. No matter what time the alarm goes off, if someone asks how I am in the morning, I’m going to say, I’m tired. But that’s not what I mean. I am achingly, bone-deep, down to a cellular level tired. I am tired of constantly feeling as though we are living through moments of…