Pastor Jim Smith brings a seed packet to the pulpit and turns the parable of the sower from a diagnosis into a question he has asked students for seventeen years:…
Mary's Magnificat in Luke 1, from a preacher who opens by noting he is six inches shorter and twenty years older than the one people came to hear.
2 Kings 23 and Josiah using his influence to call the whole nation together — reading the book of the covenant aloud in their hearing, small and great alike.
Isaiah 53:6-7. We all like sheep have gone astray, and the iniquity of us all laid on one who did not open his mouth.
John 21 and the conversation between Jesus and Peter, overheard by John — brought by Pastor Jim Smith, nine years at this church after arriving as interim.
A reign ends, and that is when the vision comes. Dr. James Smith III preaches Isaiah 6 on a sequence the year-end usually reverses: seeing, then undoing, then cleansing, and…