A51: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
November 9, 2020
“At one of the men’s lunch groups this week, the topic of year-end performance appraisals came up. This particular men’s lunch group is made up of men who are not yet retired, and I deduced...
A39: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 17, 2020
Phillip Martin’s mother refused to buy him cheap relics on vacations. Instead, she suggested he pick up rocks. He did so, but years later, he could not remember where each stone came from and which...
A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 10, 2020
“If I were in charge of Jesus’ 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...
A37: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 3, 2020
Jim Somerville wasn’t always a Baptist, but then he fell in love with a pretty Baptist girl and married not only into her family but into her church. His father-in-law once told him (with a...
A36: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
July 27, 2020
“Today’s story from Matthew 14:13-21 where Jesus feeds a multitude in the desert, is the only miracle story that all four gospel writers tell, which means it must have been a very important story in...