“Ask the Next Question”
Amy Starr Redwine, Pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins this Sunday’s sermon from Mark 9:30-37 with children’s questions about God. She says, “Asking questions is one of the ways we learn about...
A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
“In just about every sphere of life…we are tempted to reduce complex concepts to simple ideas that are easier for us to grasp. We long to break things down into the lowest common denominator that...
A19: Palm/Passion Sunday, Year A (2023)
Years ago John Phillip Newell was preaching at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh. Standing in the pulpit that hugs one of the massive, thousand-year old pillars of the church, Rev. Newell began his sermon with...
A16: The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor and head of staff at First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia says, “A long tradition of Biblical interpretation concludes that the woman at the well must be a prostitute. Many of...
A09: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A (2020)
“Where are you a local?” asks Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage, Matthew 4:12-23, we learn that Jesus does not go to his local places to find...