Sermon 3 Pentecost—Year B June 14, 2015 William Bradbury 1 Samuel 15:34-16:13 Psalm 20 2 Corinthians 5:6-17 Mark 4:26-34 One summer Sunday five years ago while I was rector of Grace Church, New Bedford, the actor Sam Waterston, in a seersucker suit, showed up to worship with us. One of...
It is hard to believe that we are already at the end of the program year! What a great year it was! Please enjoy the June edition of our Church School Newsletter. Our monthly newsletters will take a break over the summer but will be back in September. Have a...
Forum Notes What is the Good News? William Bradbury June 7, 2015 I. Introduction: (The following quotes are from the wonderful new book, which is written for folks like us, by N. T. Wright, Anglican bishop and preeminent New Testament scholar: Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and...
Sermon 2 Pentecost—Year B June 7, 2015 William Bradbury 1 Samuel 8:4-20, 11:14-15 Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35 It’s hard to keep your head when everyone is talking about you. Every month some celebrity from Hollywood or politician from Washington goes off the deep end or stops just...
Forum The Strong Name of the Trinity Trinity Sunday William Bradbury May 31, 2015 (This is the hand-out for the forum) A distressing image: On May 27, 1995, twenty years ago this past Wednesday, Christopher Reeve was thrown from his horse as it refused the third jump at a race...
Sermon Trinity Sunday May 31, 2015 William Bradbury Isaiah 6:1-8 Psalm 29 or Canticle 2 or 13 Romans 8:12-17 John 3:1-17 In 2009 in the UK a group of atheists decided to announce their version of the good news, so “They paid for large advertisements on London buses, which...
Hello Parish, I started my Eagle Scout Project at All Saints two years ago and I have completed phase 1 of my project. I need help to finish phase two! My project is to take the church’s old books of records and digitize them. I am looking for people who...
A friend asks you: “I know you go to church, so could you please tell me what the good news is?” How would you answer that question? How does the New Testament answer it? Rev. Bill Bradbury will be using N. T. Wright’s new book Simply Good News: Why the...
Sermon Day of Pentecost–Year B May 24, 2015 William Bradbury Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104: 25-35,37 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 The Day of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, is the day we celebrate the power of God manifest in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and how, with...
It has been said that many Christians today are functional Unitarians in their understanding of God. When the doctrine of the Trinity is seen as only a pious and quaint abstraction then we lose the spinal cord of redemption — the incarnation of Jesus Christ. We also lose any meaningful...
