Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
February 13, 2022, Carrot and Stick, Luke 6:17-26 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is a well-known motivational technique that we call the carrot-and-stick approach. The entity in a position of power, say person A, wants to motivate the entity, we’ll call them person B, to behave in a certain manner, presumably a manner that person A considers good. Using the carrot-and-stick approach, person A makes use of …
February 6, 2022, The Haunting, Luke 5:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
If I’m honest, I have to admit that I’m not a very good housekeeper. I love my home, and I love being at home, and I even enjoy cleaning it, sometimes, but the dust and the dog hair and the dirty dishes always seem to be one step ahead of me at least, or maybe …
January 30, 2022, Does Jesus Love Vladimir Putin, Luke 4:22-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Last week, if you remember, we read in Luke’s gospel about the day Jesus came home and preached in his boyhood synagogue. He had been preaching and healing and casting out demons round about Galilee, and the people in his hometown had been hearing some pretty spectacular stories about this native son of theirs. They …
January 23, 2022, Hope (Briefly) Deferred, Luke 4:16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Once I watched a series of little heartwarming videos of veterans arriving home to their families. As the door was opened, or as they walked into the house, the camera focused on the face of the man or the woman or the little child at the exact moment when they realized that their husband or …
January 16, 2022, A Guide to Abundant Living, John 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The final words of John’s gospel say: “Now there are many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the whole world could not contain the books that would be written.” John had a wealth of memories to choose from when he sat down to give his …
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