C51: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
November 7, 2022
“It amuses me to see that the word ‘busybodies’ shows up in the Bible at all! It’s such a funny word…makes you wonder what sort of trouble a first century busybody would create,” says Carla...
C30: The Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
June 13, 2022
This Sunday’s preacher, Richard Ward, is the Fred B. Craddock Professor Emeritus of Preaching and Practical Theology at Phillips Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Ward begins today’s sermon from Luke 8:26-39, “The Healing Power of Incarnate...
B20: The Second Sunday of Easter, Year B (2021)
April 5, 2021
“First John is a tiny little letter. Just 5 short chapters long. It is so brief a piece of correspondence that if you are not careful you will skip right over it…It is also that...
A46: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
October 5, 2020
“My good friend Alfred heard I was preaching on this wedding banquet story from Matthew 22:1-14. He said he looked forward to me spinning some good news out of this passage,” said Carla Pratt Keyes,...
A41: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 31, 2020
“When someone in the church harms us in some way, what should we do? How should we respond? Many people would say, ‘Forgive!’ What could be more Christian, more spiritual, more biblical than to forgive?”...