“What do you expect from a sermon?” It is a question that Will Willimon has asked many people through the years, and he has gotten a lot of interesting answers. If you had asked the...

In this Sunday’s sermon from Luke 4:14-21, New Testament scholar Scott Spencer says, “Just as everyone remembers their first kiss, so preachers remember their first sermons. In both cases it’s usually a bittersweet memory.” But...

Rev. Carla Pratt Keyes, Pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, preaches this week’s Gospel lesson from John 2:1-11, the story of Jesus turning water into wine. “It is such a strange sign,”...

Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon from Luke 3:15-17, 21-22, for Baptism of the Lord Sunday. In this largely autobiographical sermon, Somerville...

Scott Spencer, New Testament scholar and author, preaches the story of the magi from Matthew 2:1-12. Spencer croons James Taylor’s “Home by Another Way” to highlight the choice of the magi. “They tell me that...

Richard W. Voelz is an Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. When his family moved from North Carolina to New Jersey after his graduation from high school, it...