C39: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
August 15, 2022
In today’s passage from Luke 13:10-17, a ‘bent over’ woman, crippled for eighteen years, shows up at the synagogue. She doesn’t seek out Jesus, but Jesus sees her. He puts his sermon on hold, lays...
C10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 24, 2022
Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church in Winchester, Virginia, begins today’s sermon with a story about her ordination. She was ordained at her home church. Her father preached the sermon and...
C09: The Third Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 17, 2022
Carla Pratt Keyes, pastor of Ginter Park Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins today’s sermon with the poem “Lycanthropy of a Black Boy,” written by Richmond’s Poet Laureate, Roscoe Burnems. Keyes connects this poem to...
B10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B (2021)
January 25, 2021
“Those who gathered thought it was going to a normal day in the Capernaum synagogue,” begins Richard Voelz, Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Mark...
C10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2019)
January 28, 2019
“What do you expect from a sermon?” It is a question that Will Willimon has asked many people through the years, and he has gotten a lot of interesting answers. If you had asked the...