Sermon: Creation Care Sunday–October 6, 2019 William Bradbury Genesis 2:18-25, Psalm 148:7-14, Revelation 5:11-14, Matthew 6:25-34 You’re at a dinner party and a stranger asks: “Well, what’s your story?” What do you tell them? Do you tell them about–your job and family configuration? Do you go back to when you...
When Rev. Bill asked me to say a few words about why I give to All Saints, I had to think hard about it, because I wasn’t all that sure myself. And after I thought about it, it occurred to me that I was not sure I want to say...
Sermon: William Bradbury 16 Pentecost—September 29, 2019 Amos 6:1a,4-7, Psalm 146, 1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:19-31 This rich man has a problem—he has a life-threatening condition that he isn’t aware of. Every morning he gets up and cleans up. His wife fixes him two eggs over easy, toast, juice, and...
Sermon: 15 Pentecost—September 22, 2019–William Bradbury Amos 8:4-7, Psalm 113, 1 Timothy 2:1-7, Luke 16:1-13 Jesus says, “You cannot serve God and wealth.” For several summers my older brother Bob was a canoe instructor at Camp Chattahoochee outside Atlanta, so it made sense when he bought a 13’ Grumman canoe....
Sermon: William Bradbury 14 Pentecost—Proper 19-C-2, September 15, 2019, Exodus 32:7-14, Psalm 51:1-11, 1 Timothy 1:12-17, Luke 15:1-10 If you didn’t grow up in the Episcopal Church, you may not be aware that there is a service in our Prayer Book called Holy Eucharist: Rite One, which uses the liturgy...
Sermon 13 Pentecost—Proper 18-C-2/ September 8, 2019 William Bradbury Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalm 1, Philemon 1-21, Luke 14:25-33 I remember hearing a talk by a pastor of a church in Atlanta and someone asked him, how he had built a church with 2000 members. He said “Well, when I started, we...
