Monthly Archives: May, 2015

May 31, 2015, Trinity Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell – Knowing the Unexplainable

To listen to this sermon, click here: 111008_001 My father was a good man and a very complicated person. I can tell you a lot of things I know about him. He was kind and gentle – when we had trouble falling asleep or when we were sick, he came in to turn our pillows …

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May 24, 2015, Pentecost – Send Our Roots Rain

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May 17, 2015 – Jesus’ Commencement Speech, a sermon by Carroll Boswell

Here is a recording of this sermon. Below is an outline written after the fact.    110924_001 Today is graduation at Potsdam College. Commence is a very widespread American tradition. Four years of hard study, followed by a barely choreographed lengthy ceremony, some of the year’s most boring speeches, all to get to that 10 second …

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May 10, 2015 – I Call You Friends

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110917_001 One of the great joys of growing up, and one of the very greatest joys of watching our children grow up, is that our relationship grows and changes, from the relationship of parent and child, to the relationship of one friend with another. It’s never quite perfect …

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May 3, 2015 – The Story of This Vine and Them Branches

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110910_001 Below you will find the notes used for the sermon, but the entire text is unavailable. Norwood is a community where generations grow up together, or at least it has been that way. Our family was a modern, transplanted kind of family – growing up in St. …

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