Jim Bundy

Scripture: Psalm 42 and Luke 17:20-21 A number of you have had the experience of asking me, for one reason or another, what I’m going to preach on this coming Sunday. Like Jeanine did when she and Karen agreed to sing this morning. She wanted to know what the theme was going to be so … Read more

Scripture: Luke 6:27-38 I don’t know whether at Sojourners you have to explain or justify the lifting up of domestic violence or sexual assault as a central theme in worship. Since Sojourners are pretty open-minded and good natured, cooperative at least about some things, and used to dealing with lots of different things in worship, … Read more

Scriptures: Deuteronomy 32:1-4, 10-13 and Ephesians 3:14-21 I hope my words this morning don’t seem simplistic. They seem a little that way to me, but what I have to say is what I have to say. It’s not really part of the discussion that will follow worship, but related to it in the sense of … Read more

Scripture: Mark 13:1-8 and Jeremiah 32:1-15 This is one of those sermons that I didn’t really intend to give, at least not today. It’s therefore a sermon I don’t feel quite ready to give. It’s also a sermon I don’t feel qualified to give, won’t be able to get very far with this morning, and … Read more

Scripture: Psalm 107 Those of you who look at sermon titles in the bulletin know that I decided to give a “Thanksgiving sermon” this morning. Next Sunday we’ll be into Advent already so I thought I would gather together a few thoughts about Thanksgiving this morning. Of course it makes a big difference whether you … Read more

Scriptures: Various The Christmas season always seems to pull me emotionally in a bunch of different directions all at once. For me, to experience this season of the year is to open myself to experience all the contrasts, the ironies, the incongruities that seem to go with this territory. For instance… Of course there is … Read more

Scriptures: Matthew 3:1-6, 11:2-15 I want to say a few words today about hope…which I think we can all agree is a good thing…hope, that is, not saying a few words about it. Hope is a well-worn topic for Advent, and so there’s always the danger that anything I might say has been said a … Read more

Scriptures: Isaiah 2:1-4; Luke 1:68-79 In a few moments the children will be doing their Christmas program, and they’re going to fill the preaching slot this morning. I don’t want to compete with them, and couldn’t even if I wanted to, but their program inspires me to say just a few words. The themes for … Read more

Scriptures: Isaiah 9:2, 6-7; Luke 1:26-38 Sometimes when I stand up here on a Sunday morning I have something to say. What I mean is that sometimes when I stand up here on a Sunday morning I have some thing to say, some idea I want to get across, some issue I want to take … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12Reading: “The Work of Christmas” by Howard Thurman So let’s see, where were we? Whenever I go away—even though I’m not really away, and even though it’s not for very long—I feel a little disoriented when I come back, like I need to look around and ask myself, where was I? Where were … Read more