B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
November 8, 2021
“Hannah, the central character in our biblical text, is honored by interpreters as a woman of faith, patience, and kindness,” begins Ginger Gaines-Cirelli, Senior Pastor of Foundry United Methodist Church in Washington, DC. She continues,...
A52: Reign of Christ, Year A (2020)
November 16, 2020
“I was driving home one night…I pulled up to a stoplight. I noticed a woman running up to my car, right up to the window. With a look of desperation on her face, she asked...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2018)
November 5, 2018
The Rev. Lisa Cressman, Episcopal priest and founder of Backstory Preaching, takes a closer look at the story most of us know as “The Widow’s Mite” from Mark 12:38-44. Cressman uses lyrics from the musical...
C50: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 26, 2016
“It’s not everyday that the Bible makes a grown man cry. But I remember one day that it did. It was this passage from Luke’s gospel that did it,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s...
B51: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
November 15, 2015
Brian K. Blount is a Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar, and President of Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In this week’s sermon from Mark 13:1-8 he notes that in Presbyterian planning materials the theme for...