“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.”...
“The Comforting Whirlwind”
Jason Micheli, pastor of Annandale United Methodist Church in Annandale, Virginia, begins this Sunday’s sermon by saying, “In the year 1889, after several days of torrential rain, the South Fork dam on the Little Conemaugh...
“The Nerve!”
Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, talks about the importance of having a worldview, a “framework of understanding.” When he was a boy he used...
“Make Me an Answer to Prayer”
Carla Pratt Keyes, Pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, takes a long and loving look at the practice of prayer as she reflects on the words of James 5:13-20, this Sunday’s epistle...
“We’ve Got a Marketing Problem”
The Rev. Dr. Amy Butler, author, activist, and former Senior Minister of the Riverside Church in New York City, preaches a sermon from the Gospel lesson for this Sunday from Mark 8:31-38. She begins: “You...