Monthly Archives: April, 2017

April 30, 2017, When God Is a Big Disappointment – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here:  Z0000021 We Christians use a lot of words to describe the God that we worship – Savior, Friend of sinners, Redeemer, Comforter, Creator. He is Mighty, he is Kind, he is Merciful. He is our Righteousness, our Shepherd, our King. But today we read a gospel story where …

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April 23, 2017, Is There Life after Doubt? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here:   Z0000020 In the six short years since I’ve been here with you at St. Philip’s, we’ve had to say good-bye to far too many of our beloved friends – it seems like so many funerals and memorial services for such a small church family. It’s hard on those …

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April 16, 2017, Easter, The Weight of Heaven – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here:  Z0000019 There is a ridiculous, but sometimes very funny, BBC show from Scotland called Limmy’s world. And there is one short skit that begins with the narrator, Limmy, asking a question, “I have a question for you: which is heavier, a kilogramme of steel, or a kilogramme of …

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April 15, 2017, Easter Vigil – From Stone to Flesh, A Transplant Story – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000018 One of the miracles of modern science that I am most thankful for is that some doctors and scientists somewhere discovered how to take a healthy human organ from one person’s body and to transplant it into another person whose organ is no longer able to function …

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April 14, 2017, Good Friday. What’s So Good about It? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here:  Z0000017 Every Friday during the season of Lent, we come together and kneel at the altar rail to prepare our hearts for following the Stations of the Cross, from Jesus’ unjust condemnation at the hands of his own people, to his burial in the tomb of Joseph of …

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April 13, 2017, People Who Serve People – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here:  Z0000016 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put …

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April 2, 2017, Doubters Welcome – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here:  Z0000015 We have an image in our heads about what faith is supposed to look like. When we think of people with great faith, we picture giants of the faith like St. Francis or Charles Wesley from the past, or contemporary people like Billy Graham and Pope Francis. …

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