A41: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
“When someone in the church harms us in some way, what should we do? How should we respond? Many people would say, ‘Forgive!’ What could be more Christian, more spiritual, more biblical than to forgive?”...
A40: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
In Exodus 3:1-15, God tells Moses to get going in order to help the Israelite people escape Egypt and Pharaoh’s oppression. Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, Virginia says, “God’s...
A39: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
Phillip Martin’s mother refused to buy him cheap relics on vacations. Instead, she suggested he pick up rocks. He did so, but years later, he could not remember where each stone came from and which...
A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
“If I were in charge of Jesus’ public relations, I’m not sure I would want this story about him getting around,” begins Courtney Allen Crump, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. In Matthew...
A37: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
Jim Somerville wasn’t always a Baptist, but then he fell in love with a pretty Baptist girl and married not only into her family but into her church. His father-in-law once told him (with a...
A36: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
“Today’s story from Matthew 14:13-21 where Jesus feeds a multitude in the desert, is the only miracle story that all four gospel writers tell, which means it must have been a very important story in...