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Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia, begins today’s Pentecost sermon from Acts 2:1-21 with a story of the church in the Middle Ages. The celebration of Pentecost was one...
Father Michael Renninger, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Richmond, Virginia begins with a story of how his friends convinced him to run a marathon. He wasn’t sure about it but decided to give...
“My good friend Alfred heard I was preaching on this wedding banquet story from Matthew 22:1-14. He said he looked forward to me spinning some good news out of this passage,” said Carla Pratt Keyes,...
Most of us like the comfortable and the familiar. Jesus, however, sometimes sends us ahead of him to places we have never been before. MaryAnn McKibben Dana, popular speaker, preacher, conference leader, and writer, preaches...