Author Archive: saintphilipsnorwood

January 21, 2024, God Changed His Mind, Jonah 3 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I’m pretty sure the story of Jesus calling Peter and Andrew and James and John was one of my kids’ all-time favorite Bible stories. Our Sunday School teacher, Abby Peck, who was the wife of one of our elders, and the sweetest …

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January 14, 2024, He Chose You, John 1:43-51 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is below. When Jesus was saying good-bye to his close friends, on the night before he was crucified, he told them this: “You didn’t choose me – I chose you.” All hell was about to break loose, literally, in their lives. …

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January 7, 2024, Who Saw the Star?, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link below. The text is below the recording. When I was a little girl, we lived in St. Louis, and one of our favorite day trips was to Grant’s Farm. This is a large estate belonging to the Anheuser Busch family. Horse-loving kids looked forward to seeing the …

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December 31, 2023, What If God Was One of Us?, John 1:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is given below: 1. The passage we just read from John’s gospel gave us an account of the coming of Christ – one of the most important events in human history – in 304 words. How does he do that? It is an absolutely …

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December 24, 2023, The Why Is What We Know, John 3:16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

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December 17, 2023, Afraid of the Dark?, John 1:1-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is given below. John tells the Christmas story a little bit different from the other gospels. He writes: “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” Instead of telling us the story about Mary and Joseph …

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December 10, 2023, Do You Want to Keep It? Mark 1:1-8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below: Nearly fifty years ago we had the exciting and terrifying experience of discovering that I was pregnant for the very first time. I was pretty young, and we’d been married less than a year, so it was a bit of a surprise …

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CommonLife for December and January 2023-2024

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Compline for Thursday November 30 2023

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Morning Prayer for Thursday November 30 2023

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