B20: The Second Sunday of Easter, Year B (2021)
April 5, 2021
“First John is a tiny little letter. Just 5 short chapters long. It is so brief a piece of correspondence that if you are not careful you will skip right over it…It is also that...
A44: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 21, 2020
Remember the old light bulb joke? Brian Blount, President and Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA, remembers the first time he heard it. It was 1977. His brother, a student...
A42: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 7, 2020
In today’s Gospel lesson, Matthew 18:21-35, Peter wanted to know the statute of limitations on sin. “How many times should I forgive?” Brian K. Blount, President and Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary,...
B07: The Baptism of the Lord, Year B (2015)
December 31, 2017
Dr. Brian Blount, President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, and former Professor of New Testament at Princeton, preaches a sermon from Mark 1:4-11 called, “God on the Loose.” Dr. Blount begins with the...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
November 15, 2015
Brian K. Blount is a Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar, and President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In this week’s sermon from Mark 13:1-8 he notes that in Presbyterian planning materials the theme for...