Sermon 2 Epiphany—Year C January 17, 2016 William Bradbury Isaiah 62:1-5, Psalm 36:5-10, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, John 2:1-11 One Saturday afternoon I’m home from college listening to music in my room with my neighbor and great friend David, when my father who has just returned from a wedding at church...
Save the date: Our British guests will be delighting us with a free, family friendly concert on Saturday, February 13 at 7p.m. The concert band and chorus from St. Peter’s Collegiate School in Wolverhampton, England, will be presenting a program designed to please all ages. We hope you will join...
Sermon 1 Epiphany January 10, 2016 William Bradbury Isaiah 43:1-7, Psalm 29, Acts 8:14-17, Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 I heard on the news that Friday would have been Elvis Pressley’s 81 birthday and that over in Memphis at Graceland there were going to be a lot of Elvis impersonators—and of course...
Sermon Christmas 2 January 3, 2016 William Bradbury Jeremiah 31:7-14, Psalm 84, Ephesians 1:3-6,15-19a, Matthew 2:13-15,19-23 Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? As Americans we believe in our ability to control the future so it only makes sense to resolve to be agents of change in our lives at the...
Calling all volunteers! Perhaps one of your New Year’s “resolutions” or “intentions” is to become more involved at All Saints’. The good news is that we have all sorts of volunteer opportunities, big and small, awaiting you. Here are just a few that come to mind, and in no particular...
Homily First Sunday after Christmas December 27, 2015 William Bradbury Isaiah 61:10-62:3, Psalm 147 or 147:13-21, Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7, John 1:1-18 John’s Gospel proclaims today: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God….No one has ever seen God. It is God the only Son,...
Sermon Christmas Eve 2015 William Bradbury Isaiah 9:2-7, Psalm 96, Titus 2:11-14, Luke 2:1-14(15-20) The deep sentiment of this night never fails to get to me. The veil between the present and past seems especially thin tonight. I can clearly see my mother and father, brothers, and sister on Christmas morning gathered in...
Sermon Advent 4-C December 20, 2015 William Bradbury Micah 5:2-5a, Canticle 15, Hebrews 10:5-10, Luke 1:39-45, (46-55) We have a celebration of women today in the gospel—or better, a celebration of Jewish women. Young Mary newly pregnant with Jesus, visits her cousin, old Elizabeth, 6 months into her pregnancy with John the Baptist,...
This Advent season has been a busy, joyful, bustling time for our Church School groups! Between Advent wreath making, creating raffle baskets for the Holiday Fair, and preparing for our annual Christmas Pageant, we’ve also taken time to focus on the joy and promise this wonderful season brings! Check...
Sermon Advent 3—Year C December 13, 2015 William Bradbury Zephaniah 3:14-20, Canticle 9, Philippians 4:4-7, Luke 3:7-18 Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician of the first order, creating one of the first mechanical calculators. He was also a physicist, and religious philosopher. He died of stomach cancer in 1662 at...
