“The Strong Stand Firm” (C50: Proper 27)
Haggai 1:15b-2:9 and Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21 or Psalm 98; Job 19:23-27a and Psalm 17:1-9; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17; Luke 20:27-38 Herron says: “Reading these lines from the letter to the church in Thessalonica helps us...
“Anything But Normal”
“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)
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)
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)
“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...