Richard Voelz, Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, preaches the Gospel lesson for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost (Matthew 23:1-12). It’s Jesus at his fiercest, confronting hypocrisy and...
A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
August 10, 2020
“If I were in charge of Jesus’s 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...
B42: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2018)
September 3, 2018
Ryan Ahlgrim, Pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, preaches the story of the Syrophoenician Woman from Mark 7:24-37. He begins by asking, “Is it hard for you to change your mind? Did you...
B41: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
September 6, 2015
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad, the “Dame Judy Dench” of the preaching world (wink), preaches the story of the Syrophoenician Woman from Mark 7:24-37. This woman only gets one line in the Gospel, Lundblad notes....