B04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year B (2023)
December 18, 2023
“After we got our driver’s licenses, my best friend and I loved nothing more than getting in the car and just driving, windows down, radio up. We would sing whatever songs came on the radio...
A27: The Day of Pentecost, Year A (2023)
May 22, 2023
Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia, begins today’s Pentecost sermon from Acts 2:1-21 with a story of the church in the Middle Ages. The celebration of Pentecost was one...
A26: Ascension of the Lord, Year A (2023)
May 15, 2023
“Is now the time that you will restore the kingdom to Israel, Lord?…Are we there yet?…Is now when justice will be served, when wrong will be made right, when suffering will end?” The disciples this...
C10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 24, 2022
Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winchester, Virginia, begins today’s sermon with a story about her ordination. She was ordained at her home church. Her father preached the sermon and...
C08: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 10, 2022
“When I was growing up, we would often go to my grandparents’ house in South Carolina for a week or so in the summer time,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester,...