A05: The Nativity of the Lord, Year A (2022)
December 19, 2022
“Nearly fifty years ago, the astronauts on board the Apollo 17 spacecraft took a photograph known as the ‘blue marble.’…This was the first clear image of the planet Earth floating in the inky black vastness...
A04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A (2022)
December 12, 2022
“Grief comes before joy. In today’s story… and in so much of life. Our reading today tells the story of Christmas, but it’s not the story we know and love,” begins David Lose, Senior Pastor...
C32: The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
June 27, 2022
“In order to communicate truth, most of the times, humans use prose…full sentences, complete paragraphs, linear logic. Prose is fine for propositional truth or for flat, mundane things…But, at times, in order to move people...
C08: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 10, 2022
“When I was growing up, we would often go to my grandparents’ house in South Carolina for a week or so in the summer time,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester,...
C03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year C (2021)
December 6, 2021
In today’s passage, Zephaniah 3:14-20, the prophet Zephaniah invited the people to “rejoice, to not be afraid, and to believe that God would bring healing and restoration…[Zephaniah] spoke these words to a people whose lives...