Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
March 15, 2020, The Drink That Refreshes, John 4:5-42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000182 George MacDonald, who was a Scottish minister and writer in the nineteenth century, once wrote, “It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is …
March 8, 2020, The Facts of Life, John 3:1-17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000181 We read from John’s gospel this morning about a man named Nicodemus, who came to visit Jesus. He came under cover of night, because he was a Pharisee and visiting Jesus wouldn’t have been a popular or even safe thing to do. But Nicodemus was drawn to …
March 1, 2020, Can God Be Tempted? Matthew 4:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000180 This past Saturday, an International organization called L’Arche announced the results of an investigation it commissioned last year into its founder, Jean Vanier, who died in 2019. Vanier was a Catholic priest and has been admired for many years as a wise and holy man. But this …
February 26, 2020, Ash Wednesday, The God Who Sees in Secret – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is no recording available for this sermon. Jesus is teaching about “practicing piety”, by which he means those works we do that are specifically religious. As a Jewish teacher, he focuses on three practices: giving alms, or charity; prayer; and fasting, because those are the three main practices of piety in Judaism. But Jesus …
February 23, 2020, What Goes Up Must Come Down, Matthew 17:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000179 Lately we have been blessed with quite a few days of sunshine and blue skies. Even when it’s still windy and cold outside, the bright sun always lifts my spirits and makes me feel more cheerful, and more hopeful. There’s something about light, about brightness, that is …
February 16, 2020, Murder, Adultery, and Sin – Oh My! (Matthew 5:21-37) – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000178 Have you ever considered how much of what you believe has been passed down from the people who came before you – your mother or your father, certainly, but also the people who taught you when you were little, your teachers or the priest at your church? …
February 9, 2020, Ya’ll Are the Light of the World, Matthew 5:13-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click here: Z0000177 In 1630. John Winthrop, who was a Puritan lawyer and Governor of the newly established Massachusetts Bay Colony, gave a famous sermon that is generally known as the “City on a Hill” sermon – taken, of course, from Jesus’s words in the gospel of Matthew that we …
February 2, 2020, Peace That Defies Death, Luke 2:22-40 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000176 When we were young, we, or at least a lot of us, I think, felt like we were pretty much indestructible. Some of us did stupid, foolhardy things and took risks that turned our poor mothers’ hair gray. Many of us treated our bodies and the precious …
January 26, 2020, Fitting the Pieces Together, Matthew 4:18-22 – Mtr. Kathyrn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000175 A lot of people have a tendency to read the Bible as a collection of disconnected episodes rather than one, long story. That starts, I think, for those of us who grew up in Church, with Sunday School, where we read the popular stories: David and Goliath, …
January 23, 2020, The Church on the Rocks, Acts 27:18-28:10 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000174 Imagine there’s a winter storm raging outside those doors. And imagine that in the midst of the storm a bus is driving up highway 11, transporting prisoners from a prison in Pennsylvania to Upstate Correctional, in Malone. The snow is coming down really thick and fast. Visibility …
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