Monthly Archives: October, 2024

November and December 2024 CommonLife

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October 27, 2024, When God Says No, Mark 10:46-52 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. There are a lot of stories in the gospels about Jesus healing people. But among all those stories, the story of Bartimaeus is unique. First of all, Mark tells us his name. Bartimaeus is almost the only person in all the gospels …

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October 20, 2024, Who Is Greater Than Elon Musk? Mark 10:35-45 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below. Thousands of years ago, when human beings decided to design their own gods, they pretty much invented the first superheroes. Zeus and Poseidon and Ares and Athena: they were basically just bigger, stronger, faster, more attractive versions of what all humans wish …

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October 13, 2024, You Are the Camel, Mark 10:17-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus had a real genius for creating memorable images when he was preaching: the guy who worries about the speck in his neighbor’s eye while all the time he’s going around with a giant plank in his own eye; the one about …

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October 6, 2024, Rules Are for Cheaters, Mark 10:1-16 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I think probably we have all known people with broken marriages – maybe our own marriage, maybe the marriage of a good friend or of our parents – but we’ve all known someone whose marriage became a source of pain instead of …

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