“Unstickable” (A24: Sixth Sunday of Easter)
Acts 17:22-31; Psalm 66:8-20; 1 Peter 3:13-22; John 14:15-21 Maxell uses 1 Peter 3 — and the 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman — to explore what it means to be “spiritually unstickable.”...
“When You Don’t Know What to Do”
MaryAnn McKibben Dana, popular preacher, speaker, writer, and retreat leader, preaches a sermon from Mark 9:2-9 called, “When You Don’t Know What to Do.” She begins with a quote: “When a system doesn’t know what...
A41: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon from Matthew 16:21-28 called “From Solid Rock to Stumbling Block.” Somerville says that if Peter had...
A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
“In just about every sphere of life…we are tempted to reduce complex concepts to simple ideas that are easier for us to grasp. We long to break things down into the lowest common denominator that...
A22: The Third Sunday of Easter, Year A (2023)
“And now,” begins Will Willimon, “we are going to engage in a daring activity. I’m going to try to speak for the risen Christ. And you are going to try to listen for a word...