Sermon 2 Pentecost—Year C–Proper 7 June 23, 2019 + William Bradbury Isaiah 65:1-9, Psalm 22:18-27, Galatians 3:23-29, Luke 8:26-39 For reasons that I hope become clear, I can’t help but think of the 2008 book, The Hunger Games, when I read today’s story of Jesus healing the demoniac. As one reviewer describes the book: “In...
Sermon 1 Pentecost—Year C– June 16, 2019 + Deacon Bruce Nickerson
Sermon–Day of Pentecost June 9, 2019 William Bradbury Acts 2:1-21, Genesis 11:1-9, Psalm 104:25-35, 37, Romans 8:14-17, John 14:8-17, (25-27) I remember a couple of years ago when my granddaughter, Eleanor, became interested in what she called chapter books. She had reached the age where short books were not capable of connecting with the...
Sermon–Ascension Day William Bradbury Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 47, Ephesians 1:15-23, Luke 24:44-53 She’s 93 years old and her coronation as Queen of the United Kingdom was on this day, June 2, 1953—66 years ago. When she dies, if she ever does, her son, Charles, Prince of Wales, now 70 years old,...
Sermon Easter 6—Year C–May 26, 2019 William Bradbury Acts 16:9-15, Psalm 67, Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5, John 5:1-9 Way back in the late Sixties, my generation saw the crumble of the fairytales we had been raised on. We watched the Vietnam War escalating for no good purpose as our leaders lied to us. We...
Sermon–William Bradbury Easter 5—Year C May 19, 2019 Acts 11:1-18, Psalm 148, Revelation 21:1-6, John 13:31-35 Well, I mostly enjoyed my 50th high school reunion three weeks ago in Atlanta. One startling fact: of the total class of 149, 22 of us have died. I was talking to a classmate, a...
Sermon–William Bradbury Easter4—Year C–May 12, 2019 Acts 9:36-43, Psalm 23, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-30 168 years before Christ, Antiochus IV, King of the Seleucid Dynasty in Syria, massacres Jews in Jerusalem, shuts down the temple worship, and the following year erects an altar to Zeus in the Temple where he orders pigs to...
Sermon Easter 3—Year C–May 5, 2019 William Bradbury Acts 9:1-6, (7-20), Psalm 30, Revelation 5:11-14, John 21:1-19 The Prophet Ezekiel, most famous for his vision of the valley of dry bones coming back to life, describes in his first chapter a wild vision that is called the Throne-Chariot Vision: He sees angelic beings,...
The Rt. Rev. Alan M. Gates May 4, 2019 Confirmation Service
Sermon by Jonathan MacKenzie Easter 2 – April 28, 2019 Acts 5:27-32, Psalm 150, Revelation 1:4-8 and John 20:19-31
