Sermon Lent 5—Year B March 22, 2015 William Bradbury Jeremiah 31:31-34 Psalm 51:1-13 or Psalm 119:9-16 Hebrews 5:5-10 John 12:20-33 If you’ve ever been inside Trinity Church, in Copley Square, you would have noticed the enormous pulpit on the left-hand side, what we used to call the gospel side, of the...
Sermon Lent 4—Year B March 15, 2015 William Bradbury Numbers 21:4-9 Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22 Ephesians 2:1-10 John 3:14-21 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” This is one...
Sermon Lent 3 March 8, 2015 William Bradbury Exodus 20:1-17 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 John 2:13-22 You know the old joke: Moses descends Mt Sinai after his encounter with God and says, I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news. The good news is that I’ve talked...
Sermon Lent 2 March 1, 2015 William Bradbury Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 Psalm 22:22-30 Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 Hearing the tune to Amazing Grace, New Britain, which we sang last week, gets me thinking that the hymn, “Amazing Grace” can be understood best by those who have experienced grace. And...
Sermon Lent 1—Year B February 22, 2015 William Bradbury Genesis 9:8-17 Psalm 25:1-9 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 My daughter in law posted a video on Facebook that she said perfectly depicts a typical day with her kids, especially with 20 month old Margaret: The video, entitled “Why moms get...
Sermon 5 Epiphany—Year B February 8, 2015 William Bradbury Isaiah 40:21-31 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 In our short reading from 1 Corinthians this morning Paul uses the phrase “the gospel” five times: If I proclaim the gospel… woe to me if I do not proclaim the...
Dear Friends in God, I grew up a “glass half-empty” kind of guy. I was raised in a loving home in middle class southern comfort with no need unmet, yet I felt something important was missing in me. This sense of lack became the lens through which I viewed everything...
Sermon 4 Epiphany February 1, 2015 William Bradbury Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Psalm 111 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 My father had an easy landing on Normandy beach because it was over a month after D-Day. For those who landed, however, on D-Day itself, June 6, 1944, it was a horrific scene...
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...
