Monthly Archives: December, 2020
December 27, 2020, What We Saw When the Light Came On, John 1:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000229 The Christmas stories from Matthew’s and Luke’s gospels are the ones that most of us find the most familiar and Christmassy – all about Mary and Joseph and the shepherds and the wise men. But John’s gospel, the gospel reading we read today, might seem more like …
December 24, 2020, What Really Happened?, Luke 2:1-14 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000228 In recent years, I’ve noticed that there’s been some discussion among theologians and historians about just exactly how things really happened on the first Christmas, when Caesar Augustus decided to take a census of his realm, for tax purposes, forcing Joseph and a very pregnant Mary to …
December 13, 2020, Who Are You? John 1:19-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000227 Today’s gospel brings us back again to John the Baptist. I talked about John’s message in last week’s reading from Mark’s gospel, about how it was a message that demanded a response from the people who heard it – and a message that still demands a response …
December 29, 2013, Christmas 2 – Carroll Boswell on John 1:6-11
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December 15, 2013, Advent 3 – Don’t Be Offended
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130618_001 When I traveled to Wisconsin to study at Nashotah House for my very first seminary course, I had no idea where I was going. I took a bus from Potsdam to Milwaukee, which took about 30 hours, and then I took a local bus called the Badger …
December 6, 2020, Do You Want to Keep It?, Mark 1:1-8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000226 Forty-six years ago last spring I had the exciting and terrifying experience of discovering that I was pregnant for the very first time. I was pretty young at the time; we’d been married for less than a year, and it was a bit of a surprise – …
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