B14: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year B (2021)
“Promise me you will come back. Do you promise?” Father Michael Renninger, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia, heard this question each time he left one of his dear elderly congregants. This...
A31: The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
In today’s sermon, Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks the thought-provoking question, “Will we trust God when we are faced with the loss of everything?” Ahlgrim preaches from Genesis 22:1-14,...
A30: The Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
The art of story telling can be pretty difficult. “We long to tell our most authentic stories and yet we fear telling our stories,” says Rev. Courtney Allen Crump, senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church...
A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
A stranger once asked Jim Somerville, “Have you been born again?” He thought he should say yes, and eventually he did, but it left him wondering: “Why would anyone ask that question in the first...
A04: The Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A (2019)
“What are you dreaming about this Christmas?” asks Father Michael Renninger, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage, Matthew 1:18-25, we find Mary and Joseph dreaming, perhaps dreaming about their...