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...
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...
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,...
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...
Sermon Advent 2 December 6, 2015 William Bradbury Baruch 5:1-9, Canticle 16, Philippians 1:3-11, Luke 3:1-6 Since the Church is called to proclaim resurrection I want to see today if we can resurrect a word that has become dead to most of us. Not dead in the sense that no one uses it,...
Sermon November 29, 2015 Guest Priest – Jon McKenzie (written sermon not available)
Sermon Last Pentecost—B November 22, 2015 William Bradbury 2 Samuel 23:1-7, Psalm 132:1-13, (14-19), Revelation 1:4b-8, John 18:33-37 Pilate asks Jesus: “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answers, “My kingdom is not from this world.”So what does this encounter that took place 2000 years ago have to tell us about...
