B03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year B (2023)
December 11, 2023
Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli, Pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC, preaches a sermon called “The One Who Is Coming,” from John 1:6-8, 19-28. Gaines-Cirelli reminds us that today, the Third Sunday of...
A03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year A (2022)
December 5, 2022
“What I think most people find compelling about Nelson Mandela’s life is the twenty-seven years he spent in prison serving what was supposed to be a life sentence for speaking out against the oppression and...
C03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year C (2021)
December 6, 2021
In today’s passage, Zephaniah 3:14-20, the prophet Zephaniah invited the people to “rejoice, to not be afraid, and to believe that God would bring healing and restoration…[Zephaniah] spoke these words to a people whose lives...
B03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year B (2020)
December 7, 2020
“John wasn’t hurting anybody. He was just out there in the wilderness preaching and baptizing when the posse from the Pharisees rode up,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of...
A03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year A (2019)
December 9, 2019
Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church, Richmond, Virginia, tells the following story. “One day a tourist approached an Amish man and asked him, ‘Are you a Christian?’ Instead of answering, the Amish man pointed...