No matter how we are baptized, “there are repercussions for the rest of our lives. From our baptism day forward, we are marked as Christ’s own forever. Nothing can or ever will erase that basic...

“I suppose it’s only natural to present the Christian faith as some sort of answer to our questions, a kind of primitive, but sometimes effective technique, to help you obtain whatever it is that you...

“Today we have an especially exciting, fasten your seatbelt kind of story from the Old Testament…Clearly something extremely important is going on and the writer doesn’t want any of us to nod off while he...

“Fire, we follow a God who brings fire, the one who baptizes us with fire, the one who anoints us with tongues of fire, the one who refines our lives through fire, fire that consumes,...

Brian K. Blount is a Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar, and former President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In this week’s sermon from Mark 13:1-8 he notes that in Presbyterian planning materials the...

MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a sought-after speaker, preacher, conference leader, and writer, specializing in issues of leadership, faith formation, technology, and congregational transformation.  This week she preaches a sermon based on Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17. What does...