Sermon Easter 6—Year A May 25, 2014 William Bradbury Acts 17:22-31 Psalm 66:7-18 1 Peter 3:13-22 John 14:15-21 “For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God.” 1Peter 3:18 Who is this God Jesus is bringing us to? There...
Sermon Easter 5—Year A May 18, 2014 William Bradbury Acts 7:55-60 Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 A man climbed the mountain and asked the guru: what’s the meaning of life? The guru replied, “Google it.” Thomas asked Jesus, “Lord, we do not know where you are...
Sermon Easter 3 May 4, 2014 William Bradbury Acts 2:14a,36-41 Psalm 116:1-3, 10-17 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 We’ve heard a lot this week about the botched execution in Oklahoma. The three drug cocktail didn’t work as planned, but the man finally died of a massive heart attack 45...
Sermon Easter 2 April 27, 2014 William Bradbury Acts 2:14a, 22-32 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 Psalm 16 What a meeting for the apostle Thomas to miss!
Sermon Easter Day April 20, 2014 William Bradbury Acts 10:34-43 Colossians 3:1-4 Matthew 28:1-10 I heard about a teacher who received a note from her student: It read— “I loved what I was learning but I couldn’t make it stay in my head. It was too different from what...
Sermon Good Friday April 18, 2014 William Bradbury Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Hebrews 10:16-25 or Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1-19:42 Psalm 22 As a member’s 8 year old niece asked, “Why did Jesus have to die?” This is an ancient as well as a modern question. Why didn’t Jesus just lay low...
Sermon Maundy Thursday April 17, 2014 William Bradbury Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Psalm 116:1, 10-17 If this were your last night what would you do? Spend time with friends and family over a long meal? Tell everyone how much you love them? Pass...
Sermon Sunday of the Passion April 13, 2014 William Bradbury The Liturgy of the Palms Matthew 21:1-11 Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 The Liturgy of the Word Isaiah 50:4-9a Philippians 2:5-11 Matthew 26:14- 27:66 or Matthew 27-11-54 Psalm 31:9-16 We call it Palm Sunday but its central name is Sunday of the Passion...
Sermon Lent 5—Year A April 6, 2014 William Bradbury Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm 130 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45 At our last Lenten program we listened as each person talked about their view of Jesus, and how it had changed over time. We began this discussion looking at how Nadia Bolz-Weber, that...
Sermon Lent 4—Year A March 30, 2014 William Bradbury 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Psalm 23 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 This long story begins with the disciples wondering why this beggar was born blind: did God zap him because his parents sinned and or because in utero he sinned? Today we would...
