[wpdreams_ajaxsearchlite]
A44: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 27, 2020
Remember the old light bulb joke? Brian Blount, recently retired President and Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA, remembers the first time he heard it. It was 1977. His brother,...
A43: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 20, 2020
“The parables Jesus tells are often people’s most favorite parts of the New Testament because so much of the time the parables give us characters and stories that we love,” begins Phillip Martin, pastor of...
A42: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 13, 2020
In today’s Gospel lesson, Matthew 18:21-35, Peter wanted to know the statute of limitations on sin. “How many times should I forgive?” Brian K. Blount, President and Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary,...
A41: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 6, 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)
August 30, 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...