Sermon Archives
A19: Palm/Passion Sunday, Year A (2020)
Most of us like the comfortable and the familiar. Jesus, however, sometimes sends us ahead of him to places we have never been before. MaryAnn McKibben Dana, popular speaker, preacher, conference leader, and writer, preaches...
A18: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
“Can you smell that?” asks Scott Spencer’s wife. “No dear,” he replies, not to fret her, but because he genuinely doesn’t smell it. Spencer, author and New Testament scholar, says of today’s passage, John 11:1-45,...
A17: The Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
“There’s something holy and important about paying attention to our surroundings and to the people near us,” says Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia. She invites us to...
A16: The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor and head of staff at First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia says, “A long tradition of Biblical interpretation concludes that the woman at the well must be a prostitute. Many of...
A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
A stranger once asked Jim Somerville, “Have you been born again?” He thought he should say yes, and eventually he did, but it left him wondering: “Why would anyone ask that question in the first...