C14: Transfiguration Sunday, Year C (2022)
Rev. Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia, compares his recent experience with jury duty to the Transfiguration in Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a). He explains how he was sequestered for three days, listened...
C12: The Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
“The lectionary has taken us on a bit of a journey through 1 Corinthians the past several weeks….Today Paul takes the gloves off. Here, he tackles some conflict head on. It appears that he has...
C04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year C (2021)
“Where would we be without the faith of Mary and Elizabeth?” ponders Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Luke 1:39-45 (46-55), Mary allows herself to become God’s...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
“Hannah, the central character in our biblical text, is honored by interpreters as a woman of faith, patience, and kindness,” begins Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, Senior Pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC. She continues,...
B42: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
In this Sunday’s sermon, “Low Anthropology,” from James 3:1-12, Jason Micheli, pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annandale, Virginia, begins by quoting an essay entitled Confessions of a Bad Christian by Harrison Scott Key....