C37: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 1, 2022
At a youth conference that Anna Carter Florence attended a few years ago, the musician David Bailey played for one of the worship services. Florence, the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary...
B35: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
July 19, 2021
“It’s an old story…a story that comes out of Israel’s first days as a kingdom…It is a story that continues even today,” begins Will Willimon, professor of the Practice of Christian Ministry at Duke Divinity...
A36: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
July 27, 2020
“Today’s story from Matthew 14:13-21 where Jesus feeds a multitude in the desert, is the only miracle story that all four gospel writers tell, which means it must have been a very important story in...
C37: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
August 5, 2019
“Sometimes I think it would be super helpful to treat our sermons like TV shows,” begins David Lose, as in, ‘Previously, in Genesis 12, God called Abraham and he went–no doubt, no questions, no conditions. ...
C34: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
July 10, 2016
If you saw the sermon title “The Worst Church Member Ever” on the marquee, would you come to church expecting an awards ceremony of some kind? Would you come to find out who “won”? Would...