C15: The First Sunday in Lent, Year C (2019)
March 4, 2019
What’s so special about Lent? Carla Pratt Keyes says, “Lent provides us with a space to examine the stories we tell, to face the feelings behind those stories, to name the longing and pain and...
B13: The First Sunday in Lent, Year B (2018)
February 12, 2018
Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, preaches a sermon from Mark 1:9-15 called, “Satan Had a Problem.” “The problem was this,” he says: “More and more people were listening...
A15: The First Sunday in Lent, Year A (2017)
February 22, 2017
Rev. Dr. Tracy Hartman, former Daniel O. Aleshire Professor of Homiletics and Practical Theology at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, gives an unusual spin to the story of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness from...
C12: The First Sunday in Lent, Year C (2016)
February 14, 2016
On this first Sunday of Lent, Father Michael Renninger, Pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks a thought-provoking question. He tells of watching a panel of political analysts discussing candidates. Renninger asks,...
B13: The First Sunday in Lent, Year B (2015)
February 15, 2015
Rev. Grace Imathiu is Pastor of First United Methodist Church in Evanston, Illinois, and an international speaker. She was born and raised in Kenya. Her father is a retired Bishop of the Methodist Church in...