Category Archives: audio sermons
June 13, 2021, Now Seeds – Start Growing! Mark 4:26-34 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Jesus once said that the kingdom of God is in our midst – that it’s right here among us, right here inside us – but if we’re honest, most of us have a very hard time believing that. We struggle to believe the kingdom is right here, because we can’t see it. What Jesus means …
May 30, 2021, God’s Image Is Family, Trinity Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Today is Trinity Sunday, the Holy Feast Day following the Feast of Pentecost, where every year clergy tie themselves in knots seeking new ways to help people understand the doctrine of the Trinity, and every year people sit patiently in their pews knowing, when all is said and …
May 23, 2021, Do You Hear What I’m Saying? Acts 2:1-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
It was about seventeen years ago that Carroll and I began attending Trinity Church in Potsdam. One of the earliest things I remember at Trinity is the Day of Pentecost. Being in Potsdam where there are two universities, Trinity has a pretty diverse congregation, so it is their tradition on Pentecost that when the Deacon …
May 16, 2021, You Can Choose Your Friends, John 17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
If you use Corelle dishes at your house, you know that they look and feel like glass, only they’re unbreakable – until they’re not. If you’ve ever dropped a Corelle plate onto a hard floor, you know that when they do break, they don’t just break. They shatter into a million billion smithereens. It seems …
May 9, 2021, A Tale of Two Visions, Acts 10:44-48 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The passage from Acts we read this morning was so short that might have slipped through the cracks of your attention among all the other words and readings of the Mass. And that would be a shame, because what we read was a key moment in the life of the Church. So what I want …
May 2, 2021, Cambial Contact: Viniculture 101, John 15:1-17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
“I am the Vine; you are the Branches. Abide in me, as I abide in you.” Oddly enough, I want to begin today with a little lesson in horticulture, or, actually, viniculture, I guess. Specifically, I want to briefly explain the process of grafting, which is joining a branch, or a scion, of one species …
April 25, 2021, I Will Make You Shepherds of People, John 10:11-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Of all the images Jesus has given us so that we can know who he is, I think the one that gives the most comfort and assurance is the image of the Good Shepherd. “I am the Good Shepherd.” he tells us. “The Good Shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. I know my …
Putting Together the Pieces, Luke 24:36-49 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: One of the things we enjoy when we get together for holidays is putting together jigsaw puzzles. We dump the pieces out for people to work on whenever they feel like it, and over the course of a few days it’s really fun to watch the picture begin …
April 11, 2021, A Sermon for Doubters, John 20:19-29 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
A link to the audio is at the bottom of the sermon. What was it like for Jesus’s disciples in the days after his Crucifixion, shut up within those four walls, huddled in their small group, sharing their common sorrow and fear, living in continual uncertainty? Well, our lives over this past year, isolated by …
April 4, 2021, The Messy and Solid Reality of the Resurrection, Matthew 28:1-10 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: If you’ve never been present at the birth of a baby you might think of babies, when you think of them at all, as tiny, clean, soft, sweet-smelling, wonderful little creatures wrapped in blankets. And they are. Babies are awesome. But if you have had a baby, you …
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