“Cross or Cliché?”
The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, Author, Pastor, and Founder of Invested Faith, preaches on the most-memorized verse in the Bible, John 3:16, one that was such a familiar part of her youth and childhood, she...
“Can I Get a Simple Answer?”
William H. Willimon, United Methodist Bishop and Professor of the Practice of Ministry at Duke Divinity School, preaches a sermon called “Can I Get a Simple Answer?” from John 3:14-21. He says, “Poisonous serpents, a strange...
A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2023)
Will Willimon has learned to love a lot of the characters in the Gospels, but not Nicodemus. What’s to love about this stuffy know-it-all who comes to Jesus at night in John 3:1-17, pretending to...
B16: The Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year B (2021)
“My dad and I would always laugh about one of the strangest dinners we ever shared,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winchester, Virginia. “After we ordered delicious food and were...
A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
A stranger once asked Jim Somerville, “Have you been born again?” He thought he should say yes, and eventually he did, but it left him wondering: “Why would anyone ask that question in the first...