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September 3, 2017

A41: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2017)

Micah Jackson

The Rev. Dr. Micah Jackson is the President of Bexley Seabury Seminary in Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the featured preachers at the 2017 Festival of Homiletics in San Antonio, where we recorded this sermon. It’s from that challenging text in Matthew 16 where Jesus insists that his disciples deny themselves, take up their crosses, and follow him. How do we do that? Micah has some ideas based on his own experience of following a great teacher.

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