Monthly Archives: January, 2022
January 30, 2022, Does Jesus Love Vladimir Putin, Luke 4:22-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Last week, if you remember, we read in Luke’s gospel about the day Jesus came home and preached in his boyhood synagogue. He had been preaching and healing and casting out demons round about Galilee, and the people in his hometown had been hearing some pretty spectacular stories about this native son of theirs. They …
January 23, 2022, Hope (Briefly) Deferred, Luke 4:16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Once I watched a series of little heartwarming videos of veterans arriving home to their families. As the door was opened, or as they walked into the house, the camera focused on the face of the man or the woman or the little child at the exact moment when they realized that their husband or …
January 16, 2022, A Guide to Abundant Living, John 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The final words of John’s gospel say: “Now there are many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.” John had a wealth of memories to choose from when he sat down to give his …
January 9, 2022, Baptism 2.0, Luke 3:15-22
To listen to this sermon, click here: The Hebrew way of thinking about time, which is what we meet in the Bible, wasn’t about a linear progression the way that we tend to view time: this happened, and then this, and then this. It’s a much more organic way of thinking, and it fits in …
January 2, 2022, Treasure These Things in Your Own Heart, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
I think most of us will have to remind ourselves this coming week, that it’s still Christmas; that we are still walking through the season of our Lord’s Nativity. Carroll and I have a few friends – good Episcopalians, of course – who staunchly observe the full season of Advent, right up to Christmas Eve, …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 