B04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B (2020)
December 14, 2020
“A pastor friend was hoping to counter all the commercial Christmas frenzy swirling about his children, and to teach them what the season was all about. So he sat down at the kitchen table with...
B01: The First Sunday of Advent, Year B (2020)
November 23, 2020
A few years ago, I stumbled across a website called raptureready.com. The site is like the Dow Jones Industrial Average for end of time activity, according to its author. The index is a kind of...
A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 10, 2020
“If I were in charge of Jesus’s public relations, I’m not sure I would want this story about him getting around,” begins Courtney Allen Crump, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. In Matthew...
A34: The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
July 13, 2020
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture admits that over fifty percent of our flora is made up of species that are considered undesirable by some segment of society,” says Courtney Allen Crump, pastor of Grace Baptist...
A30: The Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
June 15, 2020
The art of story telling can be pretty difficult. “We long to tell our most authentic stories and yet we fear telling our stories,” says Rev. Courtney Allen Crump, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church...