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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

11/25/2025

This week on the Day1 Radio Show, we welcome Rev. Dr. Anna Carter Florence of Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. Her sermon Reading Our Story Backwards explores Matthew 24:1-8, 32-44 with a powerful Advent invitation: what changes when we start with the ending God has already promised?

How about you? Where are you being invited to read your own story in a new way this season?

Listen to Episode 4210:
https://day1.fm/4210

11/24/2025

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: First Sunday of Advent - Year A
CALENDAR DATE: Sunday, November 30, 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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JEREMIAH 33:14-16
🔗 Advent Waiting and Working for the Kingdom – The Rev. Dr. J. Barney Hawkins IV
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002891/advent_waiting_and_working_for_the_kingdom

🔗 Apocalypse: Then and Now – The Rev. Dr. Scott Black Johnston
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002642/apocalypse_then_and_now

🔗 ON Scripture-The Bible: After the Chaos Ends (Jeremiah 33:14-16) – Amy Erickson
https://day1.org/articles/5d9b820ef71918cdf200339b/on_scripturethe_bible_after_the_chaos_ends_jeremiah_331416_by_amy_erickson_

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PSALM 25:1-10
🔗 Enemies – The Rev. Geoffrey H***e
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf20026f9/enemies

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1 THESSALONIANS 3:9-13
🔗 We Are Yet Alive! – Bishop Kenneth Carter
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2003d36/we_are_yet_alive

🔗 Scott Gunn: Shining the Light of Grace – The Rev. Canon Scott Gunn
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/61927d366615fb0414000010/scott-gunn-shining-the-light-of-grace

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LUKE 21:25-36
🔗 Wake Up! Christmas is Coming – The Rev. Dr. Bill Britt
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf20032f1/wake_up_christmas_is_coming

🔗 A God’s Eye View – The Rev. Dr. Susan Andrews
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002430/a_gods_eye_view

🔗 Advent Alertness: Episode #4158 – The Rev. Dr. Kimberly Wagner
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/6739c6206615fbe4d90023e0/advent-alertness-episode-4158

🔗 Advent Waiting and Working for the Kingdom – The Rev. Dr. J. Barney Hawkins IV
https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf2002891/advent_waiting_and_working_for_the_kingdom

🔗 Diana Butler Bass: Progressives, Advent, and the End of the World – Dr. Diana Butler Bass
https://day1.org/articles/5d9b820ef71918cdf20033a6/diana_butler_bass_progressives_advent_and_the_end_of_the_world

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Let these Advent resources inspire your preaching and renew your vision for the season of waiting and hope. Share them with colleagues and reflect together:

How is your community preparing for the coming of Christ this Advent?

11/23/2025

“There is a balm in Gilead…”

To illustrate how spirituals bring healing and hope, Rev. Dr. Luke Powery of Duke Divinity School shares a powerful memory of teaching in a federal prison with divinity students and incarcerated students together, where this song became their shared refrain.

“Every verse, down and up—isn't that life?”

Watch this moment from our latest Day1 interview: https://day1.fm/4209

11/23/2025

The Day1 Radio Show airs today! Join us as Rev. Dr. Luke Powery of Duke Divinity School leads us into the hope and challenge of “Criminal Christ,” reflecting on Luke 23 v33-43 and God’s radical with-ness in the hardest places.

Listen on your local radio station, stream the episode right now on YouTube, or hear the full-length interview on the Day1 Weekly Podcast wherever you get your podcasts...

https://youtu.be/-OPJUH37Z5A

Join us for Episode 4209 of the Day1 Radio Show and Podcast, featuring the Rev. Dr. Luke Powery, Dean of Duke University Chapel and Associate Professor of Ho...

11/21/2025

“The crime of the cross is that it is God’s caress of the entire world. Jesus is guilty! Guilty of dying and loving at the same time.”

This moment from the sermon by Rev. Dr. Luke Powery invites us to see the cross not as divine punishment, but as divine embrace. How might this reshape the way we understand God’s love?

11/20/2025

On Reign of Christ Sunday (Proper 29, Year C), this week’s Day1 episode centers on a striking line from Rev. Dr. Luke Powery: “The crime of the cross is that it is God’s caress of the entire world.” As we close the church year, where do you see Christ’s mercy embracing the world, especially the places we overlook?

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11/19/2025

If you’ve ever felt unsure about church, or burned out by religion, this conversation between Rev. Dr. Luke Powery of Duke University Chapel and host Rev. Dr. Katie Givens Kime might just meet you where you live.

“Don’t expect something perfect from our Christian community, but it is a place, somehow, that together, we form the Body of Christ. And there’s room, you know... There’s room for everyone.”

It’s not about perfect music, flawless sermons, or hot coffee. It’s about grace, persistence, and finding belonging among other humans.

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