C22: The Second Sunday of Easter, Year C (2022)
“On Easter Sunday someone usually says, ‘Christ is risen!’ and everyone else says, ‘Christ is risen indeed!’ But some people have a hard time with the Resurrection: they have a hard time believing it actually...
B44: The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
Perhaps one of the most familiar lines from the book of Esther is when Mordecai reminds Esther that she was in her current position in the king’s court “for such a time as this…” In...
B31: The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
“I grew up with two little sisters. Most of the arguments in our house centered around our rooms not being clean. My mother wanted me to make my bed every day. My response was, “Why...
B17: The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year B (2021)
“It’s only a hunch, but I have a hunch that the 23rd Psalm may have been among the first David ever wrote,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A...
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...