Perhaps you’ve heard the saying, “Heaven helps those who help themselves,” says Rev. Dr. Kristin Adkins Whitesides, Senior Pastor of First Baptist Church, Winchester, Virginia. The self-help industry is worth about $10 billion according to...
C51: The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
November 11, 2019
Imagine being called into your boss’s office and being told that you’re just not cut out for your position, the one you had dreamed about as a child. Michael Renninger pastor of St. Mary Catholic...
C50: The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
November 4, 2019
Perhaps one of the most debated topics in Christianity is death and the afterlife. Ryan Ahlgrim, pastor of First Mennonite Church in Richmond, Virginia, asks, “Is it either you trust in life after death or...
C49: The Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
October 28, 2019
If you attended Sunday School as a child, you probably know today’s story well. “Zacchaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he. He climbed up in a sycamore tree for...
C48: The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C (2019)
October 21, 2019
“Two men went up to the temple to pray…and one went down to his home justified. In between is a story that most of us find pretty straightforward,” says David Lose, Senior Pastor of Mount...