Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
June 13, 2021, Now Seeds – Start Growing! Mark 4:26-34 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Jesus once said that the kingdom of God is in our midst – that it’s right here among us, right here inside us – but if we’re honest, most of us have a very hard time believing that. We struggle to believe the kingdom is right here, because we can’t see it. What Jesus means …
Sermon for Sunday June 6 2021 – guest speaker the Rev. Helen I. Harris – Mark 3:20-35
Have you ever done something that made other people wonder if you have lost it? Sometimes we say or do things and then afterwards we think to ourselves, now why did I do that. In today’s gospel, Jesus has been traveling throughout the region of Galilee. He had been healing the sick, giving sight to …
May 30, 2021, God’s Image Is Family, Trinity Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Today is Trinity Sunday, the Holy Feast Day following the Feast of Pentecost, where every year clergy tie themselves in knots seeking new ways to help people understand the doctrine of the Trinity, and every year people sit patiently in their pews knowing, when all is said and …
May 23, 2021, Do You Hear What I’m Saying? Acts 2:1-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
It was about seventeen years ago that Carroll and I began attending Trinity Church in Potsdam. One of the earliest things I remember at Trinity is the Day of Pentecost. Being in Potsdam where there are two universities, Trinity has a pretty diverse congregation, so it is their tradition on Pentecost that when the Deacon …
May 16, 2021, You Can Choose Your Friends, John 17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
If you use Corelle dishes at your house, you know that they look and feel like glass, only they’re unbreakable – until they’re not. If you’ve ever dropped a Corelle plate onto a hard floor, you know that when they do break, they don’t just break. They shatter into a million billion smithereens. It seems …
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