C37: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 1, 2022
At a youth conference that Anna Carter Florence attended a few years ago, the musician David Bailey played for one of the worship services. Florence, the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary...
C35: The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
July 18, 2022
Ryan Ahlgrim preaches that fascinating story from Genesis 18:20-32, about the time Abraham bargained with God in the hope that he would spare the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah “if only ten righteous” were found...
B14: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year B (2021)
February 22, 2021
“Promise me you will come back. Do you promise?” Father Michael Renninger, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, heard this question each time he left one of his dear elderly congregants. This...
A31: The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
June 22, 2020
In today’s sermon, Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks the thought-provoking question, “Will we trust God when we are faced with the loss of everything?” Ahlgrim preaches from Genesis 22:1-14,...
Have you ever found yourself wondering, “How can God’s promises possibly come true?” People in scripture asked this question as well. In today’s passage, Genesis 18:1-15 and 21:1-7, we find that Abraham and Sarah had...