Category Archives: audio sermons
Lent I March 6 2022 – “The Struggle is Real” Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
This episode in the desert happens right after Jesus has been baptized by John. Like the glorious moment on the mountaintop we read about last week, at his baptism, Jesus’s divinity was on full display. There were hundreds, maybe thousands of people there along the banks of the Jordan River on that day. They all …
February 6, 2022, The Haunting, Luke 5:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
If I’m honest, I have to admit that I’m not a very good housekeeper. I love my home, and I love being at home, and I even enjoy cleaning it, sometimes, but the dust and the dog hair and the dirty dishes always seem to be one step ahead of me at least, or maybe …
January 30, 2022, Does Jesus Love Vladimir Putin, Luke 4:22-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Last week, if you remember, we read in Luke’s gospel about the day Jesus came home and preached in his boyhood synagogue. He had been preaching and healing and casting out demons round about Galilee, and the people in his hometown had been hearing some pretty spectacular stories about this native son of theirs. They …
January 23, 2022, Hope (Briefly) Deferred, Luke 4:16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Once I watched a series of little heartwarming videos of veterans arriving home to their families. As the door was opened, or as they walked into the house, the camera focused on the face of the man or the woman or the little child at the exact moment when they realized that their husband or …
January 9, 2022, Baptism 2.0, Luke 3:15-22
To listen to this sermon, click here: The Hebrew way of thinking about time, which is what we meet in the Bible, wasn’t about a linear progression the way that we tend to view time: this happened, and then this, and then this. It’s a much more organic way of thinking, and it fits in …
January 2, 2022, Treasure These Things in Your Own Heart, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
I think most of us will have to remind ourselves this coming week, that it’s still Christmas; that we are still walking through the season of our Lord’s Nativity. Carroll and I have a few friends – good Episcopalians, of course – who staunchly observe the full season of Advent, right up to Christmas Eve, …
December 26, 2021, God Is the One Who Shows Up, John 1:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
You all know that our family suffered a great loss recently. And as heartbroken as we were, and still are, I know very well that we are just one family among many thousands who are grieving this Christmas. But what I wanted to talk about was a gift we received – the gift that made …
December 19, 2021, Jesus Takes Sides, Luke 1:39-55 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
“Black lives matter.” That short phrase has become very much a political football these past few years, so that just saying those three words is often enough to set people’s teeth on edge. But the simple meaning of the phrase remains powerful and important. To say that Black Lives Matter, ultimately and simply, is to …
December 5, 2021, Holy Road Work, Luke 3:1-14 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Sometimes there is a person you’ve known for a long time, and you hear something new about them, and it changes the way you look at them forever. Sometimes that happens with the Bible as well. We’re reading along and something appears that changes our understanding, opens our eyes and makes it bigger, John the …
November 28, 2021, Tidings of Comfort and Joy, Luke 21:25-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. It’s the weekend after Thanksgiving, and the shopping season is now in full swing. And the world would like to sell you a bill of goods. The world would like to offer you the Hallmark Channel life, where everything is pretty and clean and everyone is …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 