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Christmas CommonLife December 2022

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December 4, 2022, How to Use a Winnowing Fork, Matthew 3:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above: Today we begin the second week of Advent, the second week of bending our focus and our energy on the coming of Christ, not only in the past, God born among us as a child in Bethlehem, not only in the present, the power and comfort …

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Holy Eucharist for Advent 2 December 4 2022

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November 27, 2022, Don’t Be Sleepwalkers, Matthew 24:36-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link below: Today the Church celebrates the beginning of a new year, as we begin the season of Advent. It’s no accident that Advent comes at the darkest time of the year, because Advent is all about hope, and hope shines brightest in the darkest times and places. …

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Holy Eucharist for Advent 1 – November 27 2022

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November 20, 2022, Christ the King, guest speaker John Dietrich

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November 13, 2022, The Center of Attention, Luke 21:5-9 – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell

to listen to this sermon, click the link below Let’s use our imaginations to take a little vacation. Imagine we are walking the busy streets of New York City in the company of Jesus on a beautiful day in July. We will be paying close attention to everything he says, but we also be distracted …

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November 6, 2022, Reading the Pattern, Luke 6:20-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon click the link below. I’ve set myself a project for this winter (and maybe for next winter, too) of knitting a poncho. I learned how to knit in Girl Scouts about a hundred years ago, but I’ve never really worked at it hard enough to get good at it. And …

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Holy Eucharist for the Feast of All Saints November 6 2022

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October 30, 2022, What Happened Here? Luke 19:1-10 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. One of the things that really bugged people about Jesus was his propensity for hanging out with sinners. Over and over again, he’d go out for dinner and drinks with tax collectors and prostitutes. He chatted with women, which was bad enough, but he even chatted …

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