Sermon 6 Pentecost—10-A, July 16, 2017 William Bradbury Isaiah 55:10-13, Psalm 65: (1-8), 9-14, Romans 8:1-11, Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 Imagine your favorite beach….Matthew says Jesus is sitting on the beach at the Sea of Galilee. It’s an arresting image: Jesus, doing the thing we like to do, sitting in front of a...
Sermon 5 Pentecost—9-A, July 9, 2017 William Bradbury Zechariah 9:9-12, Psalm 145:8-15, Romans 7:15-25a, Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Growing up at Saint Anne’s, Atlanta most of the prayers I heard from the prayer book ended with the phrase, “through Jesus Christ, Our Lord”, so naturally I figured Christ was Jesus’s last name....
Sermon 4 Pentecost—8-A, July 2, 2017 William Bradbury Jeremiah 28:5-9, Psalm 89:1-4,15-18, Romans 6:12-23, Matthew 10:40-42 I saw a bumper sticker in a recent movie that said: “Have a great day, unless you’ve made other plans.”
Sermon 3 Pentecost—7-A, June 25, 2017 William Bradbury Jeremiah 20:7-13, Psalm 69: 8-11, 18-20, Romans 6:1b-11, Matthew 10:24-39 Mark Twain was once asked, “Do you believe in infant baptism?” To which he responded: “I not only believe it, I’ve seen it!” We’ve all seen a baby dressed in a white gown get...
Sermon 2 Pentecost—Proper 6-A, June 18, 2017 William Bradbury Exodus 19:2-8a, Psalm 100, Romans 5:1-8, Matthew 9:35-10:23 What do you think when you see crowds? It depends on the context, doesn’t it? +If you’re working at Best Buy on Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, you may think: I hope I...
Sermon Day of Pentecost–June 4, 2017 William Bradbury Acts 2:1-21, Psalm 104:25-35,37, 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13, John 20:19-23 I have a friend in Atlanta who says in 1969, when she was six years old, she put up a poster in her room that said: “Make Love, Not War!” When her father...
Sermon Ascension Day–Sunday May 28, 2017 William Bradbury Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 47, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:44-53 Meditation teacher Tara Brach said some years ago a friend of hers was attending an interfaith conference which began by asking the group how they wanted to refer to the divine or “what it is that all...
The sermon on 5/21 was given by past rector Walter Sobel. Due to technical difficulties, the first part of the sermon was not recorded. But the last half is here… Thank you Walter!
Sermon Easter 5, May 14, 2017 William Bradbury Acts 7:55-60, Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16, 1 Peter 2:2-10, John 14:1-14 I know some priests who when reading this gospel at funerals refuse to read the last line that says: “No one comes to the Father except through me”. They edit it out because...
Sermon Easter 4, May 7, 2017 William Bradbury Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23, 1 Peter 2:19-25, John 10:1-10 Where is the place you feel loved and safe, where your soul is at peace? For me growing up, it was my grandparents’ house on Missionary Ridge, overlooking Chattanooga. That house became iconic in my dreams—in a...
