Jim Bundy

Scripture: Exodus 4; 2 Corinthians 5 My words for this morning grow partly out of some reflections on the Central Atlantic Conference meeting that seven Sojourners attended last weekend. I probably shouldn’t say that, since there may be some of you who, hearing that, will tune me out for the next fifteen minutes. Before you … Read more

Scripture: 1John 3:11-16; 4:7-12 This is a day that many churches around the country—not as many as I would like, but ok some—celebrate Pride Sunday. It’s the Sunday closest to the anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion that began on June 28, 1969 and that Dian described. This also just happens to be the exact day … Read more

Scripture: Psalm 39 and Psalm 146 Tuesday is the Fourth of July and that has had something to do with the direction of my thoughts for this morning in a way that I’ll try to explain in a few moments. But with the Fourth of July in mind, I was putting together the worship materials … Read more

Scripture: Jonah 1 and Psalm 42 This is the first of what will be probably three sermons based on the book of Jonah. As many of you know, I like to do this from time to time—summer often seems like a good time—I like to take a Biblical character or a series of stories and … Read more

Scripture: Jonah 2:1-10; Psalm 130 This is the second of several sermons based on the book of Jonah. I realize some of you weren’t here last week, some of you may not have total recall of where we were with the story last week, and I can stand a little refresher myself, just to get … Read more

Scripture: Jonah 3 and 4 I was having some trouble this week with how to approach this last of the sermons on the book of Jonah, which is why I came up with such catchy and creative sermon title: Jonah Part Three.  When I have trouble coming up with a sermon title, it’s usually a … Read more

Scripture: Acts 3:1-10 The question for this morning is: What does the reading from the book of Acts that we have heard have to do with the book of Jonah that I have just spent three weeks’ worth of sermons on. There is an answer to that question, but to get to the answer I … Read more

Scripture: Luke 10:25-37 One thing leads to another. Last week I tried to describe how Jonah led me to the story about the lame man at the Beautiful Gate and his interaction with the apostles Peter and John. I said that that was not a story about having pity on someone but was about, among … Read more

Scripture: Job 1 and 2 At the suggestion of the worship committee I’ll be spending the remaining weeks in August with another book from the Hebrew scriptures, the book of Job. There was a lively discussion in our worship committee meeting that led to this, and then Faye Arnold, Mary Dockery, and I continued the … Read more

Scripture: Selections from Job Introduction to scripture: This is the second of three sermons on the book of Job. The book of Job is a fairly lengthy book that happens to lend itself to a series of three sermons because it is basically divided into three parts. There is a brief opening section of a … Read more