C25: Pentecost Sunday, Year C (2016)
May 6, 2016
We’ve all seen the motivational and demotivational posters with a word at the top, a picture, and a caption. For example, the poster for the word “limitations features a penguin running on ice. The caption...
C24: The Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 21, 2016
“Paul and Silas are in a precarious situation. They’re in a difficult spot. They’re in a place where they can only trust in God. They come to this place, this unexpected place, and they learn...
C23: The Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 20, 2016
“Dr. Seuss’s first book was rejected by 23 publishers. In its first year of existence Coca Cola only sold 400 Cokes…Michael Jordan got cut from his high school team…Joseph had to go through a pit...
C22: The Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 12, 2016
After several painful meetings in which the new leadership at the monastery where I was living gave me long lists of why I would never be a good priest, I asked the newest leader the...
C20: The Third Sunday of Easter, Year C (2016)
April 2, 2016
Jim Somerville, pastor of Richmond’s First Baptist Church in Richmond, Virginia, and co-founder of A Sermon for Every Sunday, preaches a sermon called “The Acts of an Easter People,” based on Saul’s conversion story in...