“Anything But Normal”
“Those who gathered thought it was going to another normal Sabbath 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...
A44: The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2023)
How quickly we forget! The Israelites had just been freed from bondage in Egypt by crossing the Red Sea on dry land, escaping the pursuing Egyptian army, who drowned when the walls of water crashed...
C49: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2022)
Rolf Jacobson, Professor of Old Testament and the Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Scripture, Theology, and Ministry, at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota, preaches from Isaiah 1:10-18. He presents four points about the passage....
B10: The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B (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...
A50: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year A (2020)
Rev. Amy Starr Redwine, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, Virginia, introduces today’s scripture passage from Amos 5:18-24 with the following story. She says, “Long ago, there was a community that did not think of...