A38: The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
August 7, 2023
“In just about every sphere of life…we are tempted to reduce complex concepts to simple ideas that are easier for us to grasp. We long to break things down into the lowest common denominator that...
A16: The Third Sunday in Lent, Year A (2023)
March 6, 2023
Ryan Ahlgrim, Pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, begins this Sunday’s sermon from Exodus 17:1-7 by recounting the story of a hike he and his wife took in the Colorado mountains where they...
C44: The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
September 19, 2022
“About a year ago a house on my way to and home from church got painted pink. All the other houses along that street are plain-colored, ordinary-looking houses. That whole house, however, from the ground...
C08: The Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year C (2022)
January 10, 2022
“When I was growing up, we would often go to my grandparents’ house in South Carolina for a week or so in the summer time,” begins Kristin Adkins Whitesides, pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester,...
B03: The Third Sunday of Advent, Year B (2020)
December 7, 2020
“John wasn’t hurting anybody. He was just out there in the wilderness preaching and baptizing when the posse from the Pharisees rode up,” begins Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church and Co-Founder of...