“In order to get to the crux of this Gospel reading this morning, Mark 1:4-11, we’re essentially going to have to forget everything we’ve heard and talked about for the last three or four weeks....

“All of a sudden, everything got dark. It was Christmas Eve, many years ago…This year, we had decorated our tree with twinkle lights…We had never seen anything like it…And neither had our cat…Before we knew...

Today is Transfiguration Sunday, a turning point from the season of Epiphany, characterized by light and revelation, to the season of Lent, a season of repentance, as we journey to the cross with Jesus. Listen...

Perhaps you’re familiar with that scene from The Princess Bride, where the impressive priest begins the wedding ceremony by saying, “Mawage. Mawage is what bwings us togever today. And wove…twue wove…will follow wherever you go.”...

Listen as Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia sheds light on today’s passage from Matthew 5:13-20. He says, “While your light is important, Jesus is not speaking about individual lights here....

“These are not your grandma’s beatitudes…In your grandma’s beatitudes, people are happy because their actions have led to some observable reward,” says Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, Virginia. In...