Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood

June 5, 2022, The First Cry, Acts 2:1-21- Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

Click the link above to listen to this sermon. My first conscious encounter with the Holy Spirit happened when I was about 14 or 15. A friend of my mother was going to a healing service at her church – it was a Lutheran church – and she offered to bring me along. I had …

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Holy Eucharist for Pentecost June 5 2022

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CommonLife for June and July 2022

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May 29, 2022, Maranatha! Revelation 22, guest speaker Carroll Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click on the link above. Today I get a chance to preach on one of my favorite topics: the End of the World. The text for the sermon today is the last three words of Revelation 22:20. However, I need to summarize the rest of the book of Revelation to …

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May 22, 2022, I Am with You Always, John 14:23-29 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click here: Looking back on our three-year cycle, I saw that the last time I preached on this gospel passage, I had just returned home from St. Louis, where I had been staying with my sister in the hospice center while she was dying of breast cancer. I talked about …

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Holy Eucharist for Easter 6 May 22 2022

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May 15, 2022, Love: As Old as the Hills, as New as the Cross, John 13:31-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

A man came to Jesus one day, and he asked Jesus a question. “Teacher,” he said, “which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” And Jesus answered him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first …

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Holy Eucharist for Easter 5 – May 15 2022

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May 8, 2022, Adonai Is My Shepherd, I Lack Nothing, John 10:22-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. Today we read about a confrontation between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. It happened in December, or kislev in the Hebrew calendar, when Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem, during the Feast of the Dedication, which we call Hannukah. Most of the festivals we read …

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Holy Eucharist for Easter 4 – May 8 2022

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