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...
Sermon 13 Pentecost—Proper 18-C-2/ September 8, 2019 William Bradbury Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalm 1, Philemon 1-21, Luke 14:25-33 I remember hearing a talk by a pastor of a church in Atlanta and someone asked him, how he had built a church with 2000 members. He said “Well, when I started, we...
Sermon by William Bradbury Sirach 10:12-18, Psalm 112, Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16, Luke 14:1, 7-14 “On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the sabbath, they were watching him closely.” This is not the “let’s watch the great...
Sermon by Deacon Bruce Nickerson 11 Pentecost—Proper 16-C/August 25, 2019
Sermon 10 Pentecost—Proper 15-C-Track 2–August 18, 2019 William Bradbury Jeremiah 23:23-29, Psalm 82, Hebrews 11:29-12:2, Luke 12:49-56 Jesus is right: We know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, even without a weather app on our phones. We say, “Red sky at morning, sailors take warning; Red sky at night, sailors delight”. But...
Sermon by Jonathan MacKenzie 9 Pentecost—Proper 14-C/August 11, 2019
Sermon by William Bradbury 8 Pentecost—Proper 13-C/August 4, 2019 Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23, Psalm 49:1-11, Colossians 3:1-11, Luke 12:13-21 Jesus says to us: “One’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.” Really? Is this true? Do we actually live as if we believe it’s true?
Sermon 7 Pentecost—Proper 12-C–July 28, 2019 William Bradbury Genesis 18:20-32, Psalm 138, Colossians 2:6-15, (16-19), Luke 11:1-13 In the 2006 movie “Click”, Adam Sandler goes to Bed, Bath and Beyond to buy a new remote that will hopefully control, among other things, his TV and ceiling fan. In the back of the store...
