B30: The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
“Some of the best stories in the Bible are the stories of David, the shepherd boy, the musician, the poet, the warrior, Israel’s greatest king…Of all the many and colorful characters in the Bible, David...
B19: Easter Sunday, Year B (2021)
“The traditional Gospel reading for Easter Sunday is John 20:1-18, where Mary Magdalene comes to the tomb early on the first day of the week, while it is still dark. You know that story. It’s...
A41: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (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?”...
A37: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (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...
C38: The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author, begins this week’s sermon by explaining how he got a call asking him to come to Charlottesville to join the group of clergy praying for those protesting in...