Category Archives: audio sermons
September 27, 2020, Refraction, Revelation, and Redemption, Philippians 2:1-13 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000216 Have you ever come into a room and been surprised and delighted to see a patch of rainbow light dancing on the floor? When you look for the source of the rainbow you might see that someone left a glass of water on the windowsill. Just a …
September 20, 2020, What If We Are Not the Good Guys?, Matthew 20:1-16 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000215 The readings for today bring us face to face with the grace of God. Jonah has been sent, kicking and screaming, by the roundabout journey through a whale’s belly, to prophesy death and destruction to Nineveh, a great city in the Assyrian Empire. He goes through the …
September 13, 2020, How Much Is Enough? Matthew 18:21-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000214 Peter asks: “How many times do I have to forgive my brother if he keeps on sinning against me?” Every time we pray the Lord’s Prayer we pray, “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” But like Peter, there are times when …
September 6, 2020, Beacon Fires and Lost Sheep, Matthew 18 and Ezekiel 33 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000213 “But if your brother or sister sins, go and confront them, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won your brother or sister. But if they do not listen, take with you one or two others as well, so that every …
August 30, 2020, Standing at the Crossroads, Matthew 16:21-25 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000212 The book of Jeremiah contains 52 chapters, with 1,364 verses, and our Old Testament lesson today was just seven verses long. That means there is an awful lot of context that needs to be supplied if we’re going to make any sense of the reading. So I …
August 23, 2020, We Hold the Keys, Matthew 16:13-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
On the day that Peter, speaking on behalf of his fellow disciples as he often did, made his confession of faith to Jesus, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” Jesus had a revelation of his own to make to Peter and the others. “You, Peter – and he was speaking to …
August 16, 2020, Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall, Matthew 15:21-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To Listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000210 The story that we read this morning, of the conversation between Jesus and a distressed mother, is one I have always found troubling. We expect to hear compassion and kindness in the words of Jesus, and yet here, he seems to be harsh. He might even sound …
August 9, 2020, In the Eye of the Storm, Matthew 14:22-33 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000209 “Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but …
July 26, 2020, Snapshots of the Kingdom, Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000208 The parables we read today are a little different from the parables we’ve been reading the last couple of weeks. Instead of stories, they’re more like a series of brief, disconnected snapshots of the Kingdom. On the surface, they seem pretty random. We begin with our familiar …
