“The Kingdom of the Upside-Down” (C44: Proper 21)
Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16; Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146; 1 Timothy 6:6-19; Luke 16:19-31 Tubbs takes on the story of the rich man and Lazarus from Luke 16. “If we take...
“Letting Go”
Courtney Allen Crump is Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia. She begins this week’s sermon from Mark 10:17-31 by saying, “Jesus’s directive for the rich man to sell his possessions and give the...
C44: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
“About a year ago a house on my way to and home from church got painted pink. All the other houses along that street are plain-colored, ordinary-looking houses. That whole house, however, from the ground...
C36: The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
“Does it spark joy?” That’s what the star of “Tidying Up with Marie Kondo” wants to know about our possessions, and Jesus might agree. In this Sunday’s Gospel lesson he breaks the news that one’s...
C44: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
“My youngest son has the remarkable gift of laser-like focus. Whenever he is playing with legos or reading a book, the rest of the world falls away…” begins Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, Senior Pastor...