Dr. Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday preaches a sermon from Mark 1:4-11 called, “From a Ripped-Open Sky.” Only Mark uses the verb schizomenous–“ripped open”–to...

Dr. Brian Blount, President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and former Professor of New Testament at Princeton, preaches a sermon from Mark 1:4-11 called, “God on the Loose.” Dr. Blount begins with the...

Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, tells a story about some red-headed Irish triplets and a fight over a toy fire truck. Is that any way to get into...

Rolf Jacobson, Professor of Old Testament at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, and one of the stars of the Sermon Brainwave podcast, preaches a sermon from Matthew 28:16-20 for Trinity Sunday. It’s the Great...

No matter how we are baptized, “there are repercussions for the rest of our lives. From our baptism day forward, we are marked as Christ’s own forever. Nothing can or ever will erase that basic...