Monthly Archives: July, 2021
July 25, 2021, A Thing of Unreasonable Abundance, Mark 6:30-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The gospel today should have a very familiar ring for us, not only because it’s one of the best-known stories about Jesus, but because feeding people is something we do here at St. Philip’s. In fact, feeding people seems to be in our DNA. I remember reading the early records of our church, and way …
July 18, 2021, Comfort and Affliction, Mark 6:30-34 and 53-56 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: At least four different people, Finley Peter Dunne, John Kenneth Galbraith, Lucille Clifton and Reinhold Niebuhr are credited with the phrase “to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted,” referring to everything from the media to poetry to God himself. And certainly it is the nature of anything …
July 11, 2021, Who Put the Fun in Dysfunctional?, Mark 6:14-29 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
A good friend of mine has a magnet on her refrigerator that says, “My family puts the FUN in dysfunctional.” Family dysfunction is a little more out-in-the-open than it used to be, but it has always been one of the central places of suffering in our society. I grew up with a father who was …
July 4, 2021, Finding God in the Ordinary, Mark 6:1-6 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
We might think that if God himself walked into St. Philip’s, if Jesus opened those front doors some Sunday morning and came in and sat down in one of our pews, surely we’d know him right away. We would fall to our knees in worship and adoration and joy as soon as we saw him. …
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