A05: The First Sunday after Christmas Day, Year A (2019)
December 23, 2019
“If the perfect Son of God were born into a perfect family, in a perfect way, in a perfect town, at a perfect time, then his message would probably only apply to perfect people,” says...
A04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A (2019)
December 16, 2019
“What are you dreaming about this Christmas?” asks Father Michael Renninger, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage, Matthew 1:18-25, we find Mary and Joseph dreaming, perhaps dreaming about their...
A03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year A (2019)
December 9, 2019
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church, Richmond, Virginia, tells the following story. “One day a tourist approached an Amish man and asked him, ‘Are you a Christian?’ Instead of answering, the Amish man pointed...
A02: The Second Sunday of Advent, Year A (2019)
December 2, 2019
“But still, he is a really nice guy…the tell-tale words we use too often to soften the unkind things we say about others.” David Lose, Senior Pastor of Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota,...
A01: The First Sunday of Advent, Year A (2019)
November 25, 2019
“Imagine a world where Christmas doesn’t come on December 25, but with the first snowfall of the year,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday....