“The Nerve!”
Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, talks about the importance of having a worldview, a “framework of understanding.” When he was a boy he used...
A36: The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
In today’s passage from Matthew 13:31-33 and 44-52, Jesus speaks in parables to describe the kingdom of heaven. Richard Voelz, Associate Professor of Preaching & Worship and the Director of The Bridge for Early Career...
B47: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2021)
“In a book called The Critical Years, Sharon Parks writes about going to Harvard as a new chaplain.” At a reception, a professor shared with her how hard it had been to send his son...
B23: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B (2021)
“One day I was walking through a quiet neighborhood. I noticed a church building, or at least, I thought it was a church building. I wasn’t quite sure…What was throwing me off was that it...
A28: Trinity Sunday, Year A (2020)
“I don’t think I’ve ever come across anyone who isn’t in some way fascinated by the world around them,” begins Phillip Martin, pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Richmond, Virginia. On Trinity Sunday, Martin expounds...