A15: The Second Sunday in Lent, Year A (2020)
March 2, 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)
December 16, 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...
C51: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
November 11, 2019
Imagine being called into your boss’s office and being told that you’re just not cut out for your position, the one you had dreamed about as a child. Michael Renninger pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic...
C47: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
October 14, 2019
Rev. Dr. Judy Kincaid, pastor of Little Elk Creek Lutheran Church and New Hope Lutheran Church in Menomonie, Wisconsin, once asked her children what they wanted to be when they grow up. Her ten-year-old son...
C37: Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
August 5, 2019
“Sometimes I think it would be super helpful to treat our sermons like TV shows,” begins David Lose, as in, ‘Previously, in Genesis 12, God called Abraham and he went–no doubt, no questions, no conditions. ...