Sermon 2 Epiphany January 18, 2015 William Bradbury   1 Samuel 3:1-10(11-20)  Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 1 Corinthians 6:12-20  John 1:43-51  One of the joys of being in a parish filled with so many smart people, many of them engineers, is that whenever there is a problem there is no shortage...

Sermon 1 Epiphany January 11, 2015 William Bradbury   Genesis 1:1-5 Psalm 29 Acts 19:1-7 Mark 1:4-11   What is your favorite image of Jesus? At Christen Mills’ ordination to the priesthood yesterday in Boston, the image of Jesus as the good shepherd kept showing up in the liturgy. The...

Sermon First Sunday after Christmas December 28, 2014 William Bradbury     Special Readings John 1:1-18    We know the story from Luke we read Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: The story about Caesar and shepherds and angels and a man and a woman and a baby in a manger...

Sermon Christmas Eve 2014 William Bradbury     Isaiah 9:2-7  Titus 2:11-14  Luke 2:1-14(15-20)  Psalm 96   Do you like your Christmas tree this year? I like mine, but it’s certainly not because I enjoy the process of buying the thing and struggling to get it set up straight—“oh no,...

Audio is not available for this sermon. Sermon Advent Three—Year B December 14, 2014 William Bradbury   Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 Psalm 126 or Canticle 3 or Canticle 15 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8, 19-28 C. S. Lewis was in a dark toolshed and noticed a beam of sunlight coming in through a...

Sermon Advent Two December 7, 2014 William Bradbury     Isaiah 40:1-11 Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 2 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ…. Whenever Caesar’s army won a battle runners went to the cities of the empire to announce the victory. These announcements were...

Sermon Advent One November 30, 2014 William Bradbury   Isaiah 64:1-9 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 I Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 12:24-37 I’m impressed every year when Clem and Sally and assorted helpers manage to move our ginormous Advent wreath from storage in the chapel and hoist it high above the lecturn. As...

Sermon November 9, 2014 Ruthann Savage-King, Seminarian Intern Lord, bless the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts for you are our rock and our salvation. “We don’t want you to grieve as others do who have no hope. For the Lord himself, with a cry of...

Sermon Last Pentecost—Year-A November 23, 2014 William Bradbury Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24 Psalm 100 Ephesians 1:15-23 Matthew 25:31-46 I love the images of the shepherd in the gospels: Jesus is the shepherd who leaves the 99 alone on a hillside to bring back the one lost sheep; he is the good...

There is no audio version for this sermon. Sermon 23 Pentecost—Proper 28-A November 16, 2014 William Bradbury   Judges 4:1-7 Psalm 123 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 Matthew 25:14-30 As you know I’m a movie guy so I hate to come into a movie late—even a little bit–and what I refuse to...