We are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is based on John 9:1–41. This continues our months-long journey through  the Gospel of John as part of the Narrative Lectionary.

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

We are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is based on John 7:37–52. This continues our months-long journey through the Gospel of John as part of the Narrative Lectionary.

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

We are delighted to welcome Dr. John Dominic Crossan on Saturday, March 5th as part of our WBC Speaker Series! As a preparation for this event, our pastor Art sat down to talk with Dr. Crossan to get to know him better. We hope you'll enjoy this bonus podcast conversation as they talk about Dr. Crossan's career and research, the historical Jesus, and what exactly Jesus was up to in the first century.

On March 5th from 3:00 to 4:30pm, Dr. Crossan will present his lecture at Williamsburg Baptist entitled “The Vision of Easter,” based on his recent book, Resurrecting Easter: How the West Lost and the East Kept the Original Easter Vision (2018). In it, Crossan contends that Christians today would be wise to recapture the earliest understanding of the resurrection event. Unlike the Western image of a solitary Jesus rising from an empty tomb, Crossan observes that the standard image for the resurrection in Eastern Christianity is communal and collective, and this offers a profound opportunity for reflection and hope today.

Dr. Crossan’s lecture will be an exercise in "visual theology," with images plus commentary. There will also be plenty of time for Q&A. Note: He will be joining us via Zoom due to Covid precautions. You can join us in-person in our sanctuary, or via Zoom as well! You can find the Zoom link on the front page of our website at www.williamsburgbaptist.com.

John Dominic Crossan, professor emeritus at DePaul University, is widely regarded as the foremost historical Jesus scholar of our time. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Historical Jesus, How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian, God and Empire, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography, The Greatest Prayer, The Last Week, and The Power of Parable. He lives in Minneola, Florida.

Find out more about Dr. Crossan at https://www.harpercollins.com/blogs/authors/john-dominic-crossan.

We are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is based on John 4:46–5:18, which includes two healing stories. This continues our months-long journey through the Gospel of John as part of the Narrative Lectionary.

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

We are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is based on John 6:35–59, in which Jesus describes himself as "the bread of life." This continues our months-long journey through the Gospel of John as part of the Narrative Lectionary. This week, our guest proclaimer is teh Rev. Susan Blanchard. Susan is the director of the new Baptist House of Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary. 

NOTE: The sermon audio is much better this week—we hope we have solved our technology issues!

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

We are delighted to share this wonderful podcast interview with the Rev. Susan Blanchard, who is the new director of the Baptist House of Studies right up the road from us at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA! Our pastor, Rev. Art Wright, sat down with her to talk about her background and sense of call, as well as all the exciting things that are going on as the Baptist House gets underway. It will meet a critical need for good theological education for Baptists in Virginia. Our pastor currently serves on the Advisory Committee and we are looking forward to all the ways in which we might partner together for a long and mutually fruitful relationship.

To find out more about the Baptist House of Studies, you can follow them on social media at https://www.facebook.com/BHSatUPSem. You can also find more about Union Presbyterian Seminary at https://www.upsem.edu.

To find out more about our congregation, head over to www.williamsburgbaptist.com.

Rev. Susan Blanchard is Director of the Baptist House of Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA.

Rev. Dr. Art Wright is the Senior Pastor at Williamsburg Baptist Church in Williamsburg, VA.

We  are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is  based on John 4:1–42, the story of Jesus' encounter of a Samaritan Woman at a well. This continues our months-long journey through the Gospel of John as part of  the Narrative Lectionary.

NOTE: We have struggled a little bit recently with capturing sermon audio and are working on it. It is a little hard to hear Bob Kidd preaching in this recording, but we hope to have these issues resolved soon!

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

We are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is based on John 2:1–11, the wonderful story of the Wedding at Cana. This  continues our months-long journey through the Gospel of John as part of the Narrative Lectionary.

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

We are so glad you are listening to our podcast! This week's sermon is based on John 1:35–51, which is John's story of the call of Jesus' first disciples. This continues our months-long journey through the Gospel of John as part of the Narrative Lectionary.

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about  our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.

Thanks for listening! This is the homily (short sermon) from our Christmas Eve service this year. Apologies for posting it late: our offices were closed for part of the holidays, and it took a while to circle back to get this posted. Still, I hope it's a helpful and encouraging word for you as we move forward into this new year together.

To find more out about our church, head on over to our website at https://www.williamsburgbaptist.com. While you are there, you can also find out updated information about our current programming for children and spiritual formation, our  ongoing speaker series, and our current Covid protocols on the website! Thanks again for listening. Blessings to you this week.