Michael Bailey

Sermons and Bible Studies
It’s January Now…, Epiphany 3 (C) – 2001
It’s January now. Here in New England we’ve hunkered down for whatever contingencies winter might visit upon us. The last needles have fallen off the Christmas trees, costumes from the Nativity pageant are stored away for next year, miniature outdoor lights have been unplugged, and the whole Yuletide season is receding into memory. Outdoors, snowplows […]
Amidst the Headlong Welter…, Proper 25 (B) – 2000
Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” Mark10:51 (NRSV) Amidst the headlong welter of events in Mark’s Gospel, the healing of Bartimaeus at the end of Jesus’ amazing tour southward through Galilee gets our attention in […]
Their Feet Are Clean…, Easter 6 (B) – 2000
Their feet are clean and their bellies are full; they’ve eaten some bread and drunk some wine. They are having supper together on the night before Passover. Judas has hastily left the upper room. A few of them assume that because he kept the cash bag, Judas is off buying needed provisions for the next […]
Wilbur Lucius Cross…, Thanksgiving Day (A) – 1999
And you shall remember all the ways which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. Deuteronomy 8:2-3 Wilbur Lucius Cross was governor of Connecticut from 1931-1939. A […]
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