A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2023)
February 27, 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)
March 8, 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)
March 2, 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...
B27: Trinity Sunday, Year B (2018)
May 21, 2018
The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, Interim Senior Minister at National City Christian Church, preaches on the most-memorized verse in the Bible, John 3:16, one that was such a familiar part of her youth and childhood,...
B16: The Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year B (2018)
March 5, 2018
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...