Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
March 23, 2025, Saving the Fig Tree, Luke 13:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Remember that you are dust. And to dust you will return. Jesus has a very Ash Wednesday kind of message in the gospel today. Some people come to tell him about the Galileans who were slaughtered by the Roman governor, Pilate. “Do …
March 9, 2025, There Is Only One Story, Luke 4:1-13 – Carroll Boswell, guest speaker
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I intend to focus on the last of the three temptations, but as usual I will seem to wander around before I get to it. I want to start with the story of how Kathryn and I got to New York. Once …
March 2, 2025, Listen! – Luke 9:28-36 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below: lot of times, the breakdown in a relationship has to do with a lack of listening: a wife feels like her husband doesn’t love her any more because he doesn’t listen to her. Or a child yells at his parents in frustration, …
February 23, 2025, Jesus Never Said I Had to Like You, Luke 6:27-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. We all know Jesus told us to love our enemies. But people like to point out that when Jesus told us to love our enemies, he never said that we have to like them – which can be a very comforting thing …
February 16, 2015, The Blessing and the Curse, Luke 6:17-26 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon.What is the “Good Life”? What were the basic things your parents hoped and prayed for you, as you went out into the world all those years ago? What are the things you hope and pray for now, for the young people you care about – your children or …
February 2, 2025, The Baby and the Sunrise, Luke 2:22-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The thing about being in the dark is that you can’t really tell sizes and shapes and distances. That black shape over there in the corner looks like a big scary dog, maybe even a bear. But it’s only your jacket that …
January 26, 2025, His Mission Is Our Mission, Luke 4:14-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus was invited to read from the Scriptures in the synagogue in his home town. He opened up the scroll that is handed to him, the writings of the prophet Isaiah. he chooses a passage to read. And the reading began with …
January 19, 2025, Jars of Stone, Jars of Clay, John 2:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One of the things that makes the gospel of John different from the other gospels is that John wrote his gospel as an old man, many years after his travels with Jesus as one of his close friends and followers. From this …
January 12, 2025, Bringing Home the Light, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you walked down Prospect Street last week you probably saw quite a few Christmas trees sticking up out of the snow banks along the road. The colored lights on porches and trees and bushes have been taken down, or at least …
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