Timothy B. Safford
Sermons and Bible Studies
Imagine That You Are Sitting…, Trinity Sunday (B) – 2009
NOTE TO READER: IF THIS SERMON IS USED IN WORSHIP, YOU MIGHT CONSIDER PLAYING THE MUSICAL NOTES DESCRIBED IN THE TEXT ON A PIANO. Imagine that you are sitting at a piano, and with your left hand you press down on the key in the middle of the keyboard middle C. What do you hear? […]
Budd Schulberg preached a powerful sermon in ‘On the Waterfront’
Old movie buffs had reason to mourn Budd Shulberg this past week. He wrote the screenplay for the 1954 Academy Award Best Picture, On the Waterfront. Besides being a movie about mob corruption on the docks of New Jersey, On the Waterfront preached a powerful sermon –especially pertinent to an Episcopal Church determined to focus […]
In the Acts of the Apostles…, Easter 6 (B) – 2009
In the Acts of the Apostles, we see our Christian Church in its earliest, most perfect and probably most idealized form. There were no buildings, doctrines, vestments, or rituals; just the power of the Holy Spirit giving the preached Word of God the power to transform death into life, making the lost found, the captive […]
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