William Bradbury Daniel 7:1-3,15-18, Psalm 149:1-5, Ephesians 1:11-23, Luke 6:20-31 It’s a paradox isn’t it! We live in a time of great prosperity, yet in our country, in the UK, Western Europe, and around the world, there is great fear that things are falling apart, that the center can’t hold....
Sermon: 20 Pentecost—October 27, 2019–William Bradbury–Sirach 35:12-17, Psalm 84:1-6, 2 Timothy 4:6-8,16-18, Luke 18:9-14 Decades ago, when I led the youth group in Saint Paul’s Church, in Augusta, Georgia we’d do the Trust exercise. You all know how it goes: you pick a partner and then you practice falling backwards...
Sermon: October 20, 2019-William Bradbury (NOTE: Due to a technical problem, we were unable to record this sermon) Genesis 32:22-31, Psalm 121, 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5, Luke 18:1-8 The crosses in the Episcopal Churches I’ve known have been small, shiny, ornate and in good taste, befitting our Church of England heritage....
Good morning. My name is Carol Gilchrist and I have been a parishioner at All Saints’ since 1976. When I was asked to give this brief talk, I began thinking about when and where I first was made aware of the need to give to one’s church. When I was...
Sermon by William Bradbury —October 13, 2019 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c, Psalm 111, 2 Timothy 2:8-15, Luke 17:11-19 The gospels tell us that Jesus’s ministry consists of three basic things: as Matthew puts it, Jesus travels around “teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and...
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...
