Jim Bundy

Scripture: Job 38 and 39 In a different lifetime I spent about a dozen years teaching part-time at a UCC college near Chicago. Mostly I taught courses in my doctoral field which was US religious history. Sometimes I got roped into teaching other courses, including some I didn’t really want to teach or didn’t feel … Read more

Scripture: Mark 10:27-37 Several weeks ago when I was concluding a series of three sermons on the book of Jonah, I found that after the third sermon I had some left over thoughts that had come up as I was thinking about Jonah and so three sermons spilled over into three and a half. Maybe … Read more

Scripture: Jeremiah 8 Tomorrow is September 11, 2006, the five year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. I have had in my mind for some time now that I would need to say something today in relation to that anniversary, that my preaching would have to deal with this … Read more

Scriptures: Psalm 33; Micah 6:6-8 I have a small collection of thoughts to offer today, and I apologize if some of them may sound a bit more like discussions of church life as opposed to broader and loftier spiritual reflections. But I won’t apologize too much, or too sincerely. Just as my thoughts were sort … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 14:22-33 I think probably you will not mind if the sermon this morning is a little on the short side. It’s a day of some transitions. As you’ve heard, by the end of the day, the pews will be gone from the sanctuary, which in itself will be a significant change and which … Read more

Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-16 First of all, thank you to Rev. Mildred Best and to Rev. Lynn Litchfield for preaching the last two weeks in my absence. I always regret not being able to hear the sermons you all get to hear on the Sundays when I am away. I mean it doesn’t spoil my vacation … Read more

Scripture: Genesis 1 Much of what I have to say today may sound familiar to people who have been around Sojourners for a while. I hope it sounds familiar because if it doesn’t it means that I haven’t been doing my job or making myself very clear. I hope what I have to say sounds … Read more

Scripture: 2Corinthians 5:16-21 My first foray into organized church work took place just about forty years ago.  Until this week, I hadn’t thought about that experience in a very long time, maybe because I’ve been blocking it out, maybe just because I didn’t have any particular reason to.  But I guess the direction of my thinking … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 15:32-39 I have elections on my mind this morning. Doesn’t sound very spiritual, does it? Pretty hard to think of the electoral process these days as being in any way spiritual, no matter how eager candidates may be to be seen as people of faith. Nevertheless, the elections are on my mind, and … Read more

Scripture: Luke 16:19-31 I had a little bit of a break in my preaching routine last week because of the program on hunger. Since I didn’t have to prepare a sermon, I used part of the time I would ordinarily spend in sermon preparation to think ahead a little about the coming weeks—meaning today and … Read more