“Fools for the Light” (A10: Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany)
Micah 6:1-8; Psalm 15; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; Matthew 5:1-12 “God is strong because God is vulnerable,” says Wyatt. “It is as simple and as difficult as that.” She goes on to explore why Paul admonished...
A10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (2023)
John Rohrs, Rector of St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, delivers a homily on the Beatitudes of Jesus from Matthew 5:1-12. We often hear Jesus saying that the poor, the meek, and the mourning...
A10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (2020)
“These are not your grandma’s beatitudes…In your grandma’s beatitudes, people are happy because their actions have led to some observable reward,” says Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church, in Richmond, Virginia. In...
A10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (2017)
Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon called “The Power to Bless,” from Matthew 5:1-12. Matthew presents Jesus as the “Prophet like Moses,”...