Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood
May 12, 2013, Easter 7 – Refueling
To listen to this sermon, click here: A week from tomorrow Roseanna and Victoria and I, and my son Nicholas, are leaving for a road trip, driving down to North Carolina to see the 8 Boswells that live there, and then up to Cornwall-on-Hudson to see the 6 Boswells that live there. It’s a pretty …
May 9, 2013 – Ascension Day
There is no recording available for this sermon. Every Sunday, as we prepare to take Communion, we offer up the bread and the wine with these words: “We celebrate the memorial of our redemption, O Father…recalling his death, resurrection, and ascension, we offer you these gifts.” Every time we pray that prayer, we remind ourselves …
May 5, 2013, Easter 6 – Knowing is Loving – or Loving is Knowing
Have you ever known somebody you kind of hesitated to ask questions, because you knew they would really give you the answer? When our kids were struggling with a math problem, a lot of times they would come to me for help instead of Carroll, which would make a lot more sense, because it was …
April 21, 2013, Easter 4 – Introducing the Good Shepherd
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April 28, 2013, Easter 5 – Deliverance
To listen to this sermon, click here: I hate watching scary movies, because they stay in my head and keep on scaring me for a long time. I have nightmares, sometimes for months, and the images that frightened me keep coming back to me for years. The few times that I let myself get talked …
April 14, 2013, Easter 3 – Big Jobs for Little People
To listen to this sermon, click here: When our big kids were little kids, we did all their school at home, and one of the ways we found to make history less painful, or even hopefully fun, was to have the kids read biographies of the important people from the past. We found books at …
April 7, 2013, Easter 2 – The Vision
To listen to this sermon, click here: The Vision The second Sunday after Easter is traditionally Thomas Sunday; we read the story of Doubting Thomas, who wouldn’t believe that Jesus had risen until he experienced it for himself, until he saw and touched the physical body of Christ. But when he did finally see Jesus, …
March 31, 2013, Easter – When You Go Out, You Will Meet Him
To listen to this sermon, click here: When You Go Out, You Will Meet Him I love the truthfulness of God’s word. If a person had written the story of the empty tomb it would have been much more full of faith and awe, and much less full of confusion and unbelief. The made-for-TV movie …
March 30, 2013 Easter Vigil – Becoming Part of the Big Story
To listen to this sermon click here: Becoming Part of the Big Story We have a big storage closet in our new house, and about a third of it is full of boxes and boxes and boxes of photographs – some boxes full of photo albums, and other boxes full of envelopes and shoeboxes and …
March 28, 2013, Maundy Thursday – I Will Make You Washers of Feet
At the Passover, Jesus gathered his disciples around the table for this one last time. It was the last time they would all share a meal together, the last time before their lives would all be changed forever. By that evening Judas would be found to be a traitor, and the rest of them cowards …
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