B20: The Second Sunday of Easter, Year B (2021)
April 5, 2021
“First John is a tiny little letter. Just 5 short chapters long. It is so brief a piece of correspondence that if you are not careful you will skip right over it…It is also that...
B10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B (2021)
January 25, 2021
“Those who gathered thought it was going to a normal day in the Capernaum synagogue,” begins Richard Voelz, Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In today’s passage from Mark...
Richard Voelz, Associate Professor of Preaching and Worship at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, preaches the Gospel lesson for the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost (Matthew 23:1-12). It’s Jesus at his fiercest, confronting hypocrisy and...
A44: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 21, 2020
Remember the old light bulb joke? Brian Blount, President and Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA, remembers the first time he heard it. It was 1977. His brother, a student...
A42: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
September 7, 2020
In today’s Gospel lesson, Matthew 18:21-35, Peter wanted to know the statute of limitations on sin. “How many times should I forgive?” Brian K. Blount, President and Professor of New Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary,...