Sermon Lent 1–A March 9, 2014 William Bradbury Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Romans 5:12-19 Matthew 4:1-11 Psalm 32 You know the quote, maybe from Mark Twain: “Everybody complains about the weather but nobody does anything about it” After the last big snow my Facebook page just lit up with people giving...
Sermon Last Epiphany—A March 2, 2014 William Bradbury Exodus 24:12-18 2 Peter 1:16-21 Matthew 17:1-9 Psalm 2 or Psalm 99 Have you noticed how the Bible keeps jerking us around? One moment Moses is taking care of his father in law’s sheep in the desert, then, suddenly, he’s...
Sermon 7 Epiphany—Year A February 23, 2014 William Bradbury Leviticus 19:1-2,9-18 1 Corinthians 3:10-11,16-23 Matthew 5:38-48 Psalm 119:33-40 When I was 5 years old I used to run around my neighborhood in Knoxville, wearing a Zorro costume: black hat, black mask, black velvet cape, and a plastic sword with...
Sermon 6 Epiphany—Year A February 16, 2014 William Bradbury Deuteronomy 30:15-20 or Ecclesiasticus 15:15-20 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Matthew 5:21-37 Psalm 119:1-8 Last Wednesday when I got home from church I was shown a dead mouse in the basement. Probably safe to say we also have living mice in the basement though...
Sermon 5 Epiphany—Year A February 9, 2014 William Bradbury Isaiah 58:1-9a, (9b-12) 1 Corinthians 2:1-12, (13-16) Matthew 5:13-20 Psalm 112:1-9, (10) Since our move to Boxford in September for the first time in my life I’m living on a road without street lights. I didn’t really notice it until Daylight...
Sermon The Presentation February 2, 2014 William Bradbury Malachi 3:1-4 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40 Psalm 84 or Psalm 24:7-10 We celebrate The Presentation of Jesus Christ in the Temple because it today is February 2nd. Last week Jesus was a grown man calling disciples and now he is only 40...
Sermon 3 Epiphany—Year A January 26, 2014 William Bradbury Isaiah 9:1-4 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 Matthew 4:12-23 Psalm 27:1, 5-13 Back in 2002 I was browsing the magazine racks in a local library in Salisbury, North Carolina and came across what was proclaimed as a picture of Jesus on the cover...
Sermon 2 Epiphany—Year A January 19, 2014 William Bradbury Isaiah 49:1-7 Psalm 40:1-12 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 John 1:29-42 In the South back in the 1970’s lots of cars sported a bumper sticker that said, “Jesus is the answer”.
Sermon 1 Epiphany January 12, 2014 William Bradbury Isaiah 42:1-9 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 3:13-17 Psalm 29 I had been an active Episcopalian my whole life yet there I was, a freshman at the University of Georgia sitting in my dorm, praying a conservative evangelical prayer for God to come into...
As ALL of us know, the parish hall has had one LOUD problem since the hugely successful renovation almost 10 years ago. That problem is SOUND. WAY TOO MUCH SOUND. It’s hard to hear, it’s loud, and makes gatherings in the parish hall much more difficult than they should be....
