Sermon 15 Pentecost—19-A September 17, 2017 William Bradbury Genesis 50:15-21, Psalm 103:(1-7), 8-13, Romans 14:1-12, Matthew 18:21-35 In the 1986 movie The Mission: Rodrigo Mendoza, played by Robert De Niro, is a former slave trader and mercenary, who spends years capturing the native Guarani people of Brazil and selling them...
Sermon 14 Pentecost—18-A, September 10, 2017 William Bradbury Ezekiel 33:7-11, Psalm 119:33-40, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20 You know the old story: man shipwrecked on a desert island for 20 years. Finally, rescuers arrive. They ask, “How’d you survive all alone on this tiny island?” He says, Follow me! So he shows them the little hut...
Sermon 13 Pentecost—17-A September 3, 2017 William Bradbury Jeremiah 15:15-21, Psalm 26:1-8, Romans 12:9-21, Matthew 16:21-28 Then Jesus told his disciples, “For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it.” Back a few years, I attended a...
The Danger of this Moment I was enjoying my time in Maine with my family when hell broke loose in Charlottesville, rattling the national psyche. How is it possible for someone to think it is a good thing to follow ideologies that enslaved human beings in the 19th century and...
Sermon 12 Pentecost—16-A August 27, 2017 William Bradbury Isaiah 51:1-6, Psalm 138, Romans 12:1-8, Matthew 16:13-20 Jesus says to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answers, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.” Friday night, Stephanie and I went to see a new movie titled...
Sermon The Transfiguration of Jesus August 6, 2017 William Bradbury Exodus 34:29-35, Psalm 99 or 99:5-9, 2 Peter 1:13-21, Luke 9:28-36 One of my few vivid memories of Kindergarten was spilling orange juice on myself repeatedly. I learned very quickly that humiliating myself was something to be avoided at all...
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...
