Brian Coulter says Jesus' stories invite, they welcome, they shape us over time. They connect us to something larger than ourselves. And Jesus is inviting us into the story, into the kingdom, into the family, into the gospel.

Brian Coulter: The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like...

In his sermon on Jesus' parable of the wheat and the weeds, Scott Hovey says divine justice is not something we achieve or manufacture, it is something we welcome, something for which we make room. We join with God in God's patience and in God's justice.

Scott Hovey: Tarry in the Garden

Bishop Rob Wright says the good news of Jesus’ parable in Matthew 13 is that it’s about a good God, throwing good seed, looking for good soil to multiply good in the world.

Bishop Rob Wright: The Sower, the Soil, and the Supplement

Monty Knight

In the parable of the two brothers, Monty Knight says the older brother's god is a god who seeks value and worth, unlike the God of the younger brother, whom we Christians know in Jesus: a God who confers value and grants worth, a God in whom all of life rests in this life and beyond it.

Monty Knight: Being Saved from Whom?

Cassie Waits says Abraham's story makes her wonder, who have we lost in our pursuit of righteousness? When have we held so tightly to our "values" that we failed to value the person in front of us?

Cassie Waits: Extreme Faith

Joe Evans

Joe Evans says we live by faith, not out of a place of fear, wondering where we will go when we die. We do it because God loves us and shows us how to live by sharing his love.

Joe Evans: Faith Alone

Joy J. Moore

Joy J. Moore says that in our moments of darkness, doubt, and uncertainty, there is a light that shines through asking us the same question posted to Abraham and Sarah: "Is anything too hard for the Lord?"

Joy J. Moore: Would You Laugh?

Joy J. Moore says that what God was doing did not always make sense to Abram, but his faith did not waver because he trusted and rested in God's faithfulness and timing.

Joy J. Moore: For God So Loved the World

In her sermon for Trinity Sunday, Rebekah LeMon says Paul offers us a Trinity blessing: the love of a God who covenants with us anyway, the grace of a Lord who saves us anyway, the fellowship of a Spirit that dwells with us anyway.

Rebekah LeMon: Circle Up

This Pentecost, asks Rebekah LeMon, what message is the Spirit calling us to hear? And what is the Spirit calling us to say?

Rebekah LeMon: We Hear!

Each week the Day1 program, hosted by Peter Wallace, presents an inspiring message from one of America's most compelling preachers representing the mainline Protestant churches. The interview segments inform you about the speaker and the sermon Scripture text, and share ways you can respond to the message personally in your faith and life.

Rob Lee

Rob Lee says the Acts account of the Ascension reminds us--as the whole of scripture has told us--that we cannot escape destiny, but we can face it with courage because we know the Author of the story.

Rob Lee: Waiting on the World to Change

Knowledge is good, Dock Hollingsworth says, but wisdom is better. Wisdom is the recognition that the groping for life's meaning is over only when we trust in the risen Christ, not in the gods the world is worshipping now.

Dock Hollingsworth: Because God Is Not in Favor of Ignorance

John Odegard says the work of Jesus invites us into his kingdom here and now. Whenever the opportunity to love arises, that is the place Jesus has prepared for us, so that we might be closer to him as we love our neighbor.

John Odegard: Making Room

Susan Sparks

Even in great loss, Susan says, love still surrounds us. So just keep walking. Walking from pain into purpose. Walking from frustration into faith. Walking from longing and lament into love--the deep and constant love of God.

Susan Sparks: Just Keep Walking

Russell Levenson

Russell Levenson invites us to let Jesus out of whatever box we've tried to put him in, and take hold of him. That will be a ride of a lifetime--and a life beyond this life that lasts for all eternity.

Russell Levenson: Hold On to Jesus

Scott Black Johnston

Scott Black Johnston suggests Jesus says to Simon Peter, and to us, "You are not the sum of your mistakes. Your identity is grounded in my love for you and your love for me. As you lean into that love, I have a task for you: feed my sheep."

Scott Black Johnston: The Loser Edit

In his Easter sermon, Dr. Scott Black Johnston says fear marks the start of our most sacred story, but then our anxiety comes face to face with history's most famous vacancy. On Easter we cheer an empty tomb. Jesus is on the loose!

Scott Black Johnston: Empty

Jonathan Hemphill

In his Palm Sunday sermon, Jonathan Hemphill says that by riding on a donkey, Jesus shows us that the very thing that will drive out hate is love, the thing that will drive out division is humility, and the thing that will dispel fear is service.

Jonathan Hemphill: The Passion Pandemic

David Hodges

David Hodges says the raising of Lazarus teaches us that, in our life with God, we can be assured that in every end there is a beginning -- even in death, there is the promise of resurrection, of experiencing the fullness of the glory of God.

David Hodges: We Begin at the End

In his sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent, Jeremy Shoulta says, as the man born blind celebrates his new life in Christ, so too must we welcome his loving presence each day. For God has "turned our mourning into dancing...and clothed us with gladness."

Jeremy Shoulta: The (Re)Born Identity

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