Monthly Archives: January, 2017
January 19, 2017, Scraped Knees and Cluttered Closets – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000006 There may be people in the world who are full of pride and think they are God’s greatest gift to the world, but it seems to me, as I have come to know people a little better, that most of the people I know are quite the …
Annual Report, January 2017
Our Annual Meeting is officially a business meeting, because a church is officially a corporation. And as a corporation we need to elect members to our board – which is what we call our Vestry – and to approve the budget that the people of the Vestry (and especially Karen) put together for us. But …
January 22, 2017, I Will Make You… – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000005 “ Follow me and I will make you fishers of men” – This is one of the most popular Sunday school lesson passages. We learned as children that “fishers of men” means missionaries. We were urged to consider missions as the highest of Christian callings, and urged …
For Inauguration Day – a Prayer and a Challenge
We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation of many races and religions united by a uniquely fragile and optimistic political system with potential for great good. As a Christian, and as a priest ordained to serve Jesus Christ, I believe that the Church has a crucial function within this nation, and the …
January 15, 2017, Jesus Is the Light, the Light of the World – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000004 We’re in the season of Epiphany, which is all about light – dazzling, radiant, blinding light. There was the light of what must have been something like a super-nova that caught the attention of those star-gazers in Persia, a thousand miles or more from little Bethlehem. There …
January 8, 2017, Opening the Door – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000003 Epiphany is the last chapter in what we think of as the “Christmas story” – kind of an epilog, really, because it happened quite a bit later: a year or maybe two years after the night of Jesus’ birth in the stable, with the Shepherds and Angels …
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