Category Archives: audio sermons
May 29, 2022, Maranatha! Revelation 22, guest speaker Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click on the link above. Today I get a chance to preach on one of my favorite topics: the End of the World. The text for the sermon today is the last three words of Revelation 22:20. However, I need to summarize the rest of the book of Revelation to …
May 22, 2022, I Am with You Always, John 14:23-29 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Looking back on our three-year cycle, I saw that the last time I preached on this gospel passage, I had just returned home from St. Louis, where I had been staying with my sister in the hospice center while she was dying of breast cancer. I talked about …
May 15, 2022, Love: As Old as the Hills, as New as the Cross, John 13:31-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
A man came to Jesus one day, and he asked Jesus a question. “Teacher,” he said, “which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” And Jesus answered him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first …
May 8, 2022, Adonai Is My Shepherd, I Lack Nothing, John 10:22-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. Today we read about a confrontation between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. It happened in December, or kislev in the Hebrew calendar, when Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem, during the Feast of the Dedication, which we call Hannukah. Most of the festivals we read …
April 24, 2022, Shaken to the Core, John 20:19-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. I got an email from a friend this past week, who is struggling with her faith in the face of all the suffering she sees in the daily news, especially the suffering of the people of Ukraine. “I still believe,” she wrote, “but I am shaken …
April 17, 2022, The Flash of Gold, John 20:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: This past Christmas, Carroll and I decided to get ourselves a joint Christmas present. And what we decided to give ourselves was a bird feeder. So, in the thick of winter we filled up our new squirrel-proof feeder with black oil sunflower seeds, which are supposed to be …
April 16, 2022, God on the Dark Side, Luke 23:50-56 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The stone is a major player in the stories of Holy Week and Easter. On Friday we hear how the Jews make good and sure that the stone is solidly in place at the mouth of the tomb, and how they set a seal set on …
April 15, 2022, Good Friday – At the Foot of the Cross, John 18:1- 19:42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Last night we sat around the table of Jesus’s last supper with his apostles, listening to his words, eating and drinking the bread and the wine that he gave us as a way to remember him always. We followed the example he gave us, by washing each other’s feet. If we felt awkward doing that, …
April 3 2022: Love, in Pounds or Ounces (Jn 12:1-8) Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
A link to the recording is at the end of the post. When Mary poured out the jar of costly perfume to anoint Jesus, John could remember distinctly years and years later, the house was suddenly filled with the scent. Everybody, whether they were gathered at the table or bustling around in the kitchen, suddenly …
March 27, 2022, The Parable of the Prodigal Father, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The very best part of the story of the Prodigal Son is the homecoming, the part where the Father, standing on the front porch longing for the return of his lost son, sees his son coming at long last. There he is, in the distance, the Father would know him anywhere. He had been hoping …
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