C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
“A church I served developed a clever evening of fellowship called ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’,” begins the Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia. A family in the church agreed...
C39: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
Otis Moss, III, the Senior Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Illinois, a civil rights advocate, activist, and author who was recently recognized as one of the “12 Most Effective Preachers in...
C38: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author, begins this week’s sermon by explaining how he got a call asking him to come to Charlottesville to join the group of clergy praying for those protesting in...
C37: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
“Sometimes I think it would be super helpful to treat our sermons like TV shows,” begins David Lose, as in, ‘Previously, in Genesis 12, God called Abraham and he went–no doubt, no questions, no conditions. ...
C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
“You fool!” said Jesus. “This very night your life is being demanded of you and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? So it is with those who store up treasures toward themselves...
C35: The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
Are you satisfied with your prayer life? Would you be surprised to know that, according to one survey, very few Protestant ministers are satisfied with their personal prayer lives? Dr. Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s...