A40: The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
August 21, 2023
“Cover your ears because Psalm 138 is full-throated, wide open, unabashed, and unashamed thanksgiving to God. The Psalmist does not hold back from opening their heart and mouth wide to sing God’s praise…this is a...
C46: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
October 3, 2022
Judy Kincaid, pastor of Little Elk Creek Lutheran Church and New Hope Lutheran Church in Menomonie, Wisconsin, begins with a story of a friend’s mother-in-law. Kevin told her that his mother-in-law was a kind and...
C23: The Third Sunday of Easter, Year C (2022)
April 25, 2022
“Each of the gospels has different versions of the grief Jesus’s followers experienced after their beloved teacher died. In the version we heard today from John 21:1-19, the disciples have already seen the resurrected Jesus,...
C40: The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
August 26, 2019
“A church I served developed a clever evening of fellowship called ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’,” begins the Reverend Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia. A family in the church agreed...
C46: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
September 9, 2016
In October, a month that often focuses on stewardship in churches, it could be tempting for a pastor to use today’s passage, Luke 17:11-19, the story of the ten lepers, to preach on tithing. Ten...