Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
August 15, 2021, The House That Wisdom Built, Proverbs 9:1-6 – Carroll Boswell, guest speaker
The subject for today is wisdom so we will read a lot from Proverbs. The book of Proverbs urges people to seek out three special things: knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Proverbs urges us to pursue these things as of first importance. For example, Proverbs 2:1-5, 9-12a “My son [or daughter], if you receive my words …
August 8, 2021, Are You Hungry? John 6:35,45-51 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
It became kind of a joke during the pandemic lockdown how everybody suddenly seemed to be learning to make sourdough bread – so many people, that stores started running out of flour in a lot of places. It was funny “ha ha”, partly because making sourdough is such a long, smelly, messy process. But people …
August 1, 2021, Bread for the Journey, John 6:24-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The Old Testament reading today is from the book of Exodus, that tells how God delivered his people out of slavery in Egypt, and led them through the wilderness, to find a homeland. This happens very near the beginning of their wandering in the wilderness. Just a few weeks before this, God had parted the …
July 25, 2021, A Thing of Unreasonable Abundance, Mark 6:30-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The gospel today should have a very familiar ring for us, not only because it’s one of the best-known stories about Jesus, but because feeding people is something we do here at St. Philip’s. In fact, feeding people seems to be in our DNA. I remember reading the early records of our church, and way …
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