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October 20, 2024, Who Is Greater Than Elon Musk? Mark 10:35-45 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below. Thousands of years ago, when human beings decided to design their own gods, they pretty much invented the first superheroes. Zeus and Poseidon and Ares and Athena: they were basically just bigger, stronger, faster, more attractive versions of what all humans wish …
October 13, 2024, You Are the Camel, Mark 10:17-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus had a real genius for creating memorable images when he was preaching: the guy who worries about the speck in his neighbor’s eye while all the time he’s going around with a giant plank in his own eye; the one about …
October 6, 2024, Rules Are for Cheaters, Mark 10:1-16 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I think probably we have all known people with broken marriages – maybe our own marriage, maybe the marriage of a good friend or of our parents – but we’ve all known someone whose marriage became a source of pain instead of …
September 29, 2024, A Matter of Stumbling Blocks, Mark 9:38-50 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. “If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea Jesus told …
September 22, 2024, Enankalisamenos, Mark 9:30-37 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. There is a wonderful Greek word in the gospel reading today. The word is enankalisamenos and it’s found in verse 36 – “He took a child and put him in the midst of them. And he took him in his arms;” enankalisamenos …
September 15, 2024, It Didn’t Work Out Like That, Mark 8:27-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is no recording of this sermon. The text is below. Most of us can remember times when our parents were upset with us. Maybe your Mom was mad because you didn’t clean your room. Maybe your Dad was in a towering rage because you used his tools and didn’t put them back where they …
September 8, 2024, Being Beggars, Mark 7:24-37 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today is the first of what will hopefully be monthly healing services. It’s been awhile, and we’re kind of feeling our way, to see what will be the most helpful way to organize ourselves. Our goal, certainly, is to have a service …
September 1, 2024, What Is Purity of Heart? Mark 7:1-23 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
to listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below: To the people in our gospel reading – the Pharisees, Jesus, Jewish people in the first century – what did it mean to be defiled, or unclean? To be unclean meant to be unacceptable to God, not pure enough to approach him …
August 25, 2024, Where Else Can We Go?, John 6:56-69 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. When Jesus asked the Twelve if they were going to abandon him along with so many of his disciples, Peter answered him, “Lord, where would we go? You are the only one who has the words of eternal life.” Now, Peter and …
August 18, 2024, You Are What You Eat, John 6:41-59 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus said, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Of all the teachings of Jesus, …
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