Monthly Archives: February, 2020
February 26, 2020, Ash Wednesday, The God Who Sees in Secret – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is no recording available for this sermon. Jesus is teaching about “practicing piety”, by which he means those works we do that are specifically religious. As a Jewish teacher, he focuses on three practices: giving alms, or charity; prayer; and fasting, because those are the three main practices of piety in Judaism. But Jesus …
February 23, 2020, What Goes Up Must Come Down, Matthew 17:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000179 Lately we have been blessed with quite a few days of sunshine and blue skies. Even when it’s still windy and cold outside, the bright sun always lifts my spirits and makes me feel more cheerful, and more hopeful. There’s something about light, about brightness, that is …
February 16, 2020, Murder, Adultery, and Sin – Oh My! (Matthew 5:21-37) – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000178 Have you ever considered how much of what you believe has been passed down from the people who came before you – your mother or your father, certainly, but also the people who taught you when you were little, your teachers or the priest at your church? …
February 9, 2020, Ya’ll Are the Light of the World, Matthew 5:13-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click here: Z0000177 In 1630. John Winthrop, who was a Puritan lawyer and Governor of the newly established Massachusetts Bay Colony, gave a famous sermon that is generally known as the “City on a Hill” sermon – taken, of course, from Jesus’s words in the gospel of Matthew that we …
February 2, 2020, Peace That Defies Death, Luke 2:22-40 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000176 When we were young, we, or at least a lot of us, I think, felt like we were pretty much indestructible. Some of us did stupid, foolhardy things and took risks that turned our poor mothers’ hair gray. Many of us treated our bodies and the precious …
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