C47: The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
October 10, 2022
In today’s sermon, Debie Thomas, Minister of Lifelong Formation at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, California and blogger at Journey with Jesus, explores the parable of the “persistent widow” from Luke 18:1-8. This...
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...
C47: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
October 6, 2016
Dr. Valerie Carter Smith, Executive Director of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Virginia, is herself a “persistent widow.” While her minister husband was alive, he did most of the talking, but now it is Valerie...
C28: The Third Sunday after Pentecost
May 25, 2016
Dr. William H. Willimon preaches a sermon called “Walking with Jesus” from Luke 7:11-17: the story of the raising of the widow of Nain’s son.