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Today’s passages from Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37 remind Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, of the time that he accidentally toppled over the Chrismon...
“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another…” begins today’s passage from Matthew 11:16-19 and 25-30. Rev. Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany...
If you attended Sunday School as a child, you probably know today’s story well. “Zacchaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he. He climbed up in a sycamore tree for...
Michael Curry is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA) and one of the best preachers in America. In this sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent he touches on each of the lectionary...
Lauren F. Winner is an Episcopal priest and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke University. Dr. Winner writes and lectures widely on Christian practice, the history of Christianity in America, and Jewish-Christian relations. Her...