B32: The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2018)
June 25, 2018
The Rev. Lisa Cressman, Episcopal priest and Founder of Backstory Preaching, preaches the story of the hemorrhaging woman from Mark 5:21-43. “Perhaps even before her hand left the fabric she felt the difference; she knew...
C39: The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
August 12, 2016
“On the surface it sounds like a typical healing story from the gospels. Jesus is in a public place on the Sabbath day. Someone comes to him with a need. Jesus sees the need, feels...
C30: The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2016)
May 26, 2016
“In today’s long reading from Luke 8:26-56, Jesus crosses three different boundaries to save three very different people from three very different crises. In each case, he restored that saved person to his/her community,” begins...
There are a lot of things we can lose in life. Here’s a list from the Rev. Dr. Alyce M. McKenzie, Professor of Homiletics at Perkins School of Theology. She says, “We can lose direction,...
B41: The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year B (2015)
September 6, 2015
The Rev. Dr. Barbara Lundblad, the “Dame Judy Dench” of the preaching world (wink), preaches the story of the Syrophoenician Woman from Mark 7:24-37. This woman only gets one line in the Gospel, Lundblad notes....