Sermon Day of Pentecost–Year B May 24, 2015 William Bradbury   Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104: 25-35,37 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 The Day of Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, is the day we celebrate the power of God manifest in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and how, with...

Sermon Ascension Day May 17, 2015 William Bradbury Acts 1:1-11 Psalm 47 or Psalm 93 Ephesians 1:15-23 Luke 24:44-53 My four year old granddaughter created this game last summer called Farm Restaurant: I sit on a stone bench next to a side door of the garage as she stands in...

Dear Friends in Christ, Where is God when you pray? When I pray the Lord’s Prayer my unconscious mind imagines that God is, as the prayer says, “in heaven”, which I was told as a child is a long way from here and now. Further, this “in heaven” also produces...

Sermon Easter 6—Year B May 10, 2015 William Bradbury   Acts 10:44-48 Psalm 98 1 John 5:1-6 John 15:9-17 Well, it’s finally springtime and high school juniors and seniors are attending their Proms, so love is in the air. Do you remember your first “true love”? And it may not...

Sermon Easter 5 May 3, 2015 William Bradbury Acts 8:26-40 Psalm 22:24-30 1 John 4:7-21 John 15:1-8 So how will we understand this passage I’ve just read about the true vine, the vinegrower, and the branches that Jesus tells at the Last Supper? We will understand it according to the...

Friends, I will be attending diocesan clergy conference this week so there will be no noon Eucharist on Wednesday, April 29. Easter Blessings, Bill

Sermon Easter 3 April 19, 2015 William Bradbury Acts 3:12-19 Psalm 4 1 John 3:1-7 Luke 24:36b-48 Have you ever wondered why in the stories of the resurrection the angels at the empty tomb keep saying “Do not be afraid” and the risen Jesus in the upper room keeps saying,...

Sermon Easter 2 April 12, 2015 William Bradbury   8 AM                                                  10 AM Acts 4:32-35                                     Matthew 28:1-8 Psalm 133                                          John 20: 13-18 1 John 1:1-2:2                                  Luke 24:36-43 John 20:19-31                                   John 20:29-29 The pomp and circumstance are gone—as are the crowds. On Easter in the south we’d have the children bring...

Sermon Easter Day—Year B April 5, 2015 William Bradbury   Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 John 20:1-18 The gospel today begins with tears in the dark at a tomb, not a promising start for good news. We’ve all been there: On most trips to Atlanta I visit...

Sermon Good Friday April 3, 2015 William Bradbury   Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Hebrews 10:16-25 or Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1-19:42    His last words are: It is finished! He came among us to do something and now it is done. What is it that he has done? The answer that comes most...