Sermons

Don’t be too quick to pull the weeds by The Rev. Deacon Jason A Burns A few weeks ago, I was meeting with my spiritual director and during our conversation we did an exercise where she asked me [...]

Title:  Lentil Stew and Birthright Too St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.  Sunday, July 12, 2020. Written Message, Paul Davis Introductions Father Michael asked me to prepare a lay person sermon, he [...]

A sermon preached [remotely] by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock on the occasion of marking Independence Day [7 July 2020] Deuteronomy 10:17-21; Matthew 5:43-48 Whose Service is Perfect [...]

A sermon preached [remotely] by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock, on 28 July 2020 [Proper 8]: Genesis 22:1-14; Matthew 10:40-42 A God Who Tests? And after these things God tested Abraham… [...]

A sermon preached [remotely] by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock, On 21 June 2020 [Proper 7]: Genesis 212:8-21; Matthew 10:24-39 Crisis Clarifies   I had to chuckle at the meme.  It said: [...]

We have been empowered by The Rev. Deacon Jason A Burns As I prepared to speak with you today, I had many things running through my mind, for weeks now I have been struggling to juggle the many [...]

A sermon preached [remotely] by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock, on 7 June 2020 [Trinity Sunday]: Genesis 1:1-2:4a; Matthew 28:16-20  Righteousness The responsibility to preach God’s Word [...]

A sermon preached (via zoom) by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock, on 24 May 2020 [Easter 7]: Acts 1:6-14; John 17:1-11 HOMEWARD BOUND One of the most helpful questions to emerge from this [...]

A sermon preached (via Zoom) by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock on 17 May 2020 [Easter 6]: Acts 17:22-31; John 14:15-21 God is Our Advocate This past Wednesday, members of the clergy in the [...]

God chose us by Jason A Burns May-10-2020 How often do we hear the phrase, these are troubling times, or these are not normal times? I must hear it at least five times a week and I have to admit [...]

A sermon preached (virtually) by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock On 3 May 2020 [Easter 4: Good Shepherd Sunday]: Acts 2:42-47; John 1:1-10 By the lights of our liturgical tradition, today, [...]

A sermon preached by The Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock via “zoom” on 26 April 2020 [Easter 3]: Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Luke 34:13-35 Here we are: On the one hand, we are in the sixth week of the [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 12 April 2020 [Easter Sunday]: Jeremiah 31:1-6; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-18 Getting [...]

A Good Friday Homily preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 10 April 2020   Good Friday.  The darkest, most dreadful day of the [...]

A Maundy Thursday Homily preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 9 April 2020   Margaret Mead was an American cultural [...]

A Palm Sunday Homily preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, 5 April 2020: Philippians 2:5-11; John 27:11-54 For Christians celebrating Holy Week—the [...]

A homily for Lent 4, on Sunday 22 March 2020: Morning Prayer, lived-streamed by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock – John  9:1-41.Partially Detached Retinas What a strange and unnerving time [...]

2020 Vision A sermon by Fabiana Cooper 2-23-2020 I was excited when Linda invited me to share this morning.  You see I’d often been accused of preaching many times, but now I was being ASKED to [...]

Deuteronomy warns us that we will perish if we turn our hearts away from God; Paul tells the church at Corinth that he can’t talk to them as spiritual people because they continue to not [...]

The Habit of Hope A sermon preached by Robert B. Shaw at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Easthampton February 2, 2020.           Preaching without a license: it sounds like something I should be [...]

In the Lord of the Rings Trilogy Frodo Baggins leads a simple and comfortable life. He is wealthy, has one of the most comfortable homes in the village, and he spends his time reading, fishing, [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 12 January 2020 [The Baptism of Jesus]: Isaiah 42:1-9; Acts 10:34-43; Matthew 3:13-17 [...]

In my last homily I focused on the idea of a savior and I asked you to wrestle with the idea of what you might need saving from. Symbolically we need saving from the darkness, whatever that may [...]

The Gospel today is a very familiar one, Joseph is getting ready to quietly dump his girlfriend because she is pregnant and he isn’t the father, but before he does it he has a dream in which an [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, 8 December 2019 [Advent 2]: Isaiah 11:1-10; Romans 15:4-13; Matthew 3:1-12 Our Wilderness [...]

When we belong to an organization for a long time, we inevitably come across a phenomenon that is pervasive in most, if not all, human organizations and that is insular or isolated thinking. In [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 1 September 2019 [Proper 17]: Jeremiah 2:4-13; Hebrews13:1-8, 15-16; Luke 14:1, 7-14 [...]

Set aside the distractions Sermon on August 4, 2019 Jason Burns, Diaconal Intern “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died and your life is [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 28 July 2019 [Proper12]: Genesis 18:20-32; Colossians 2:6-15; Luke 11:1-13 Teach us to [...]

A sermon preached by the reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 21 July 2019 [Proper 11]: Genesis 18:1-10a; Colossians 1:15-28; Luke 10:38-42 The Image [...]

A sermon preached by Jason Burns, Diaconal Intern at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 14 July 2019 [Proper 10] Learning by Fire! The story of the Good Samaritan is probably one of the [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 7 July 2019 [Proper 9]: Isaiah 66:10-14; Galatians 6:1-16; Luke 10:1-20 Do no be [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 30 June 2019 [Proper 8]: 2Kings 2:1-2, 6-14; Galatians 5:1, 13-25; Luke 9:51-62 FOLLOW [...]

Sunday June 2, 2019 Jason Burns When taken out of context today’s passage from the Gospel according John it is quite confusing. What we heard today is the end of a five chapter discourse, given [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 31 march 2019 [Lent 4]: Joshua 5:9-12; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 24 March 2019 [Lent 3]: Exodus 3:1-15; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 Our Burning [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philips, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 17 March 2019 [Lent 2]: Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35 FAITH [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 10 March 2019 [Lent 1]: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Romans 10:8b-13; Luke 4:1-13 TEMPTATION [...]

A sermon preached by the Reverend Michael Anderson Bullock at St. Philip’s, Easthampton, Massachusetts, on 3 March 2019 [Last Epiphany]: Exodus 34:29-35; 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2; Luke 9:28-43a [...]