A04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A (2016)
Carla Pratt Keyes, Pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, preaches a sermon called “Emmanuel” from Matthew 1:18-25. God is with us, all right, but that doesn’t mean it will be easy. “To...
A01: The First Sunday of Advent, Year A (2016)
Will Willimon, one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, finds Jesus in “an apocalyptic mood” on the First Sunday of Advent. In a sermon called “Good News or Bad News” from Matthew...
C51: The Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“One of the things I appreciate most about preaching from the lectionary is that it often leads me to preach passages of scripture I would have never chosen on my own,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor...
C50: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“It’s not everyday that the Bible makes a grown man cry. But I remember one day that it did. It was this passage from Luke’s gospel that did it,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s...
C48: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
“Whenever a parable seems this clear, this obvious, this straightforward, it most definitely is not,” says Rev. Mandy England Cole, in regard to the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector from Luke 18:9-14....