“Anything But Normal”
January 22, 2024
“Those who gathered thought it was going to another normal Sabbath in the Capernaum synagogue,” begins Richard Voelz, Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Mark...
A51: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
November 6, 2023
Rev. Ginger E. Gaines Cirelli, Pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC, preaches a sermon called “What’s It Gonna Be?” from Joshua 24:1-3a and 14-25. She says of today’s passage, “This moment is...
C14: Transfiguration Sunday, Year C (2022)
February 21, 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...
B10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B (2021)
January 25, 2021
“Those who gathered thought it was going to a normal day in the Capernaum synagogue,” begins Richard Voelz, Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Mark...
B08: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B (2021)
January 11, 2021
“Have you noticed that the lectionary readings for today are all about call?…It’s enough to make you stop and consider your own call,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of...