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12/06/2025

“There is another calendar… a different kind of calendar that we could live in.”

Dr. Diana Butler Bass reflects on the Christian year in this week’s Day1 interview.

Listen to Episode 4211: https://day1.fm/4211

12/04/2025

In this week’s interview, Dr. Diana Butler Bass invites us to reconsider the very structure of how we organize time: “The way we think about the structure of our year is all based on Roman emperors, Roman celebrations, and Roman numerals.”

She reminds us that Christians inherited a different kind of calendar, one rooted in waiting, peace, light, forgiveness, and resurrection. It's a story that runs counter to the one our culture tells.

Watch the clip and then listen to the full episode here: https://day1.fm/4211

12/03/2025

This Sunday, will be the 2nd Sunday of Advent, Dr. Diana Butler Bass reminds us that “No matter what the sadness, faith lights candles in the dark.”

This week’s Day1 message invites us to reflect on how sacred time steadies us through both grief and hope. As we move deeper into Advent, where are you noticing small lights breaking through?

Listen to the full interview with Diana Butler Bass and her sermon "The Fullness of Time" on episode 4211 >>> https://day1.fm/4211

12/02/2025

This week on the Day1 Radio Show and the Day1 Weekly Podcast, we welcome Dr. Diana Butler Bass, independent scholar and author of the new book "A Beautiful Year."

Her sermon, “The Fullness of Time,” draws from Isaiah 11 v1-10 and Matthew 3 v1-4 to invite us into Advent with a renewed awareness of sacred time. Dr. Butler Bass reflects on endings and beginnings, the ache of loss, and the quiet ways God’s grace unfolds through the seasons of our lives.

Listen to this week's episode (4211) here: https://day1.fm/4211

12/01/2025

PREACHERS AND TEACHERS — As you prepare to preach and teach this week, explore these exclusive Day1 sermons and reflections to bring new depth and insight to your ministry.

LITURGICAL DATE: Second Sunday of Advent - Year A
CALENDAR DATE: Sunday, December 7, 2025

PS: Each Monday at 7am, a new sermon resource from Frederick Buechner is posted here:
https://www.frederickbuechner.com/weeklysermonillustrations

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ISAIAH 11:1-10
🔗 Shawnthea Monroe: Repent and Reset – The Rev. Dr. Shawnthea Monroe
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2003fbb/shawnthea_monroe_repent_and_reset

🔗 Not Much But Enough For Me – The Rev. Dr. Stephen R. Montgomery
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002b98/not_much_but_enough_for_me

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MATTHEW 3:1-12
🔗 Dr. Fred Craddock on Advent, Part 2: Wind, Fire and God – The Rev. Dr. Fred Craddock
https://day1.org/audio/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002b34/dr_fred_craddock_on_advent_part_2_wind_fire_and_god

🔗 Bishop Nicholas Knisely: Lighten Our Darkness, Lord Jesus – The Rt. Rev. Nicholas Knisely
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5ddd7d8c6615fb848f000001/lighten-our-darkness-lord-jesus

🔗 Shawnthea Monroe: Repent and Reset – The Rev. Dr. Shawnthea Monroe
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2003fbb/shawnthea_monroe_repent_and_reset

🔗 Let Us Have It! – The Rev. Bradley Schmeling
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf20024b4/let_us_have_it

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Let these Advent resources inspire your preparation and enrich your proclamation. Share them with colleagues and reflect together:

What does John the Baptist’s call to repentance mean for your community today?

11/30/2025

It’s Day1 of a new week, and a new episode is on the air today. Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence brings an Advent word we need: “Reading Our Story Backwards.” Because we know God’s ending, we can live this week, and every week, with hope.

Listen on the Day1 Radio Show in your area, or stream the episode anytime: https://youtu.be/QYeik9SrZaw

And for the full sermon plus the complete conversation, subscribe to the Day1 Weekly Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

Join us for Day1 Episode 4210 as Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence, Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching and Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur...

11/29/2025

In this week’s interview, Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence reflects on how knowing the ending of a story can change the way we read Scripture. As she puts it: “To read Genesis, knowing that Exodus is coming… to read these things knowing that they’re part of a sequence… that, to me, feels important.”

It’s a beautiful reminder during Advent that our faith story has an ending full of hope, and that knowing it reshapes how we walk through the middle.

Watch the clip and then explore the full episode here: https://day1.fm/4210

11/28/2025

From this week’s sermon, Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence speaks a word many of us need in this Advent season: “God will turn your paralysis into partnership with the redemptive work of Christ... And don't we all need that?”

A reminder that the places we feel stuck are precisely where God begins to move.

Listen to the full episode here: https://day1.fm/4210

11/27/2025

A new Day1 Advent blog post today about a truth Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence names with such clarity: none of us reads Scripture with a blank slate. We know the ending. And that changes everything about how we pay attention to the story God is telling.

Read the full post here:
https://day1.fm/4210b

11/26/2025

This weekend, the First Sunday of Advent invites us to look for the places where God is already turning paralysis into partnership and fear into courage.

In Episode 4210, Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence offers a powerful word of hope for the season. May her reminder strengthen your heart as we wait for the Light that is coming.

Listen to this week's episode and the full interview you won't hear on the radio here >>> https:/day1.fm/4210