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 identity,” begins Joanna Adams. In her sermon called, “The Ego and the Miracle,” she preaches from 2 Kings 5:1-14, the story of Naaman’s healing. Elisha’s messenger tells Naaman to go wash in the Jordan seven times and he will be cleansed of his leprosy. Naaman gets angry and goes away. But his servants say, “Father if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was ‘Wash and be clean’?” What do you need to be cleansed from today? Listen as Adams tells us how we can experience healing just as Naaman did.
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of Richmond’s First Mennonite Church, says, “unlike Aesop’s Fables, Jesus’s parables are not always easy to understand. Some of his parables are downright puzzling.” He finds today’s parable of the talents from...
Rev. Ginger E. Gaines Cirelli, Pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC, preaches a sermon called “What’s It Gonna Be?” from Joshua 24:1-3a and 14-25. She says of today’s passage, “This moment is...
Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia begins today’s sermon by admitting that she doesn’t like tension in movies or book plots. She admits that sometimes she’ll skip to the...
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