“Blessed Are You Who Mourn” (A49: All Saints Day)
Revelation 7:9-17 and Psalm 34:1-10, 22; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew 5:1-12 Campbell-Reed reflects on All Saints’ Sunday through the lens of grief. She connects sainthood with “sinner-saints,” challenges heroic ideas of calling, and presents mourning...
C50: All Saints’ Sunday, Year C (2022)
Rev. Dr. Courtney Allen Crump, pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia begins with the story of a man who visited a monastery in hopes of learning how to live a more holy life....
Richard Voelz, Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, preaches the Gospel lesson, Matthew 23:1-12. It’s Jesus at his fiercest, confronting hypocrisy and calling for humility. Then, Voelz skillfully...
Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of a Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon for All Saints’ Sunday called “The End of the Story,” based on Revelation 21:1-6a. Where do...