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Brian Blount, renowned New Testament professor and President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, preaches a sermon on the calling of the first disciples from Matthew 4:12-23. “Look at these fools!” he says, quoting...
“You fool!” said Jesus. “This very night your life is being demanded of you and the things you have prepared, whose will they be? So it is with those who store up treasures toward themselves...
Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches his most-requested sermon, “The Class of ’77,” based on this week’s Gospel lesson from Mark 8:31-38. It begins with...
“Fire, we follow a God who brings fire, the one who baptizes us with fire, the one who anoints us with tongues of fire, the one who refines our lives through fire, fire that consumes,...
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad, the “Dame Judy Dench” of the preaching world (wink), preaches the story of the Syrophoenician Woman from Mark 7:24-37. This woman only gets one line in the Gospel, Lundblad notes....