Jim Bundy

Scripture: Acts 2:43-47; Isaiah 6:1-8 I’ve been taking my preaching cues recently from the liturgical year, and I decided that I would do it one more time today. Two weeks ago the occasion was the ascension of Christ, last week it was Pentecost, this week—well I had a couple of choices. Today is Trinity Sunday, … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 16:18 I feel like I’m just passing through this morning. Maybe I feel that way because I am just passing through. As some of you know, four of us—Becky Garrity, Millie Fife, Deb Winslow, and me—spent last weekend in Newark, Delaware at the annual meeting of the Central Atlantic Conference. We returned last … Read more

Scripture: Numbers 22:22-35 This is going to be a somewhat whimsical sermon, though I do mean for it to have a few serious ideas in it before I’m done. Whimsical first of all in the choice of subject matter, which in a way comes from General Synod, the national meeting of the UCC I just … Read more

Scripture: 1Corinthians 14:6-19 As I was beginning my sermon based on the story of Balaam last week, which I sensed and several of you confirmed afterwards is a fairly obscure story, I said that I just might pick a few more relatively obscure Biblical stories to preach on in the coming weeks. I decided against … Read more

Scripture: 1Corinthians 13 I quoted portions of 1Corinthians 13 last week and in the process of doing that I made the comment as a sort of an aside that those words really shouldn’t be read just at weddings. So this morning I decided to stand behind my comment and at least do my part in … Read more

Scripture: Romans 8:18-27 My sermon this morning will I think be somewhat scattered, not logically organized, filled with paradoxes and attempts to express things which cannot be expressed very well, at least by me, will have a kind of a mystical quality to it meaning maybe a bit of a fuzzy quality and therefore I … Read more

Scripture: Matthew 6:25-34 I’m not sure quite what to say this morning. I wasn’t even sure what to call it, although I went ahead and listed it in the bulletin as a sermon—even came up with a title—even though in some ways it doesn’t feel like a sermon in any usual sense. For those of … Read more

Scripture: Mark 7:1-23 I’m doing something today that I haven’t done very often in the past at Sojourners and don’t promise to do any more often in the future: preach on the lectionary scripture for the day. Frankly, I’m surprising myself a little bit by doing this. Not so much by choosing to preach on … Read more

Scripture: Mark 7:24-37 The scripture reading you have heard is once again, as it was last week, the lectionary gospel reading for the day, so that makes twice in a row that I will be preaching on the lectionary. I still don’t promise to make a habit of it. But I found when I read … Read more

Scripture: Mark 8:27-33 This sermon has several points of origin. As is obvious by now this Sunday is a kind of symbolic starting point for the fall season here at Sojourners, in the case of the Sunday school, an actual starting point. The choir sang last Sunday but it was a holiday weekend and they … Read more