Monthly Archives: April, 2024
April 28, 2024, What Is to Prevent It? Acts 8:26-40 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today we get to read our story. St. Philip doesn’t get a lot of air time in the Bible, But he does get a starring role in one of the most interesting and colorful stories in the whole book of Acts, which …
April 21, 2024, Shepherds in Training, John 10:11-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below. Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. Somehow, just those very words give me a feeling of warmth and safety. The image of Jesus as our Good Shepherd is one of the most comforting images in all of the gospels. It doesn’t matter if …
April 14, 2023, Was It a Ghost? Luke 24:36-49 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Above is a link to the recording of the sermon. The text is below. I think we have all felt worn out, at one time or another, from hearing nothing but bad news, whether it’s on TV or online or in the papers. Sometimes the news media try to make people feel better by including …
April 7, 2024, What Mission Statement?, Matthew 11:28-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The second Sunday after Easter is traditionally Thomas Sunday; we read the story of Doubting Thomas, who wouldn’t believe that Jesus had risen until he experienced it for himself, until he saw and touched the physical body of Christ. And it wasn’t …
March 30 – Homily for Holy Saturday
It’s hard to know what to say tonight, or what to think. Nothing much seems to be happening. Tonight the stone blocks the mouth of the tomb. And just to make sure it stays that way, the religious authorities that be have set a guard to prevent any funny business on the part of Jesus’s …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 