Category Archives: audio sermons
March 9, 2025, There Is Only One Story, Luke 4:1-13 – Carroll Boswell, guest speaker
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I intend to focus on the last of the three temptations, but as usual I will seem to wander around before I get to it. I want to start with the story of how Kathryn and I got to New York. Once …
February 23, 2025, Jesus Never Said I Had to Like You, Luke 6:27-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. We all know Jesus told us to love our enemies. But people like to point out that when Jesus told us to love our enemies, he never said that we have to like them – which can be a very comforting thing …
February 16, 2015, The Blessing and the Curse, Luke 6:17-26 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon.What is the “Good Life”? What were the basic things your parents hoped and prayed for you, as you went out into the world all those years ago? What are the things you hope and pray for now, for the young people you care about – your children or …
February 2, 2025, The Baby and the Sunrise, Luke 2:22-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The thing about being in the dark is that you can’t really tell sizes and shapes and distances. That black shape over there in the corner looks like a big scary dog, maybe even a bear. But it’s only your jacket that …
January 26, 2025, His Mission Is Our Mission, Luke 4:14-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus was invited to read from the Scriptures in the synagogue in his home town. He opened up the scroll that is handed to him, the writings of the prophet Isaiah. he chooses a passage to read. And the reading began with …
January 19, 2025, Jars of Stone, Jars of Clay, John 2:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One of the things that makes the gospel of John different from the other gospels is that John wrote his gospel as an old man, many years after his travels with Jesus as one of his close friends and followers. From this …
January 12, 2025, Bringing Home the Light, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you walked down Prospect Street last week you probably saw quite a few Christmas trees sticking up out of the snow banks along the road. The colored lights on porches and trees and bushes have been taken down, or at least …
January 5, 2025, Growing Up – It’s Only Human, Luke 2:41-52 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I’ve been looking through boxes of old family photos lately – mostly pictures of my kids – at home, and on birthdays and holidays over the years. The funny thing about looking at old pictures is when I see a picture of …
December 29, 2024, The Splash of the Incarnation, John 1:14 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The first chapter of John is so beautiful to read and to listen to. It’s poetry, and it’s theology, and it’s all about the thing we call the Incarnation. The doctrine of the Incarnation is how Christians throughout the centuries have done …
December 22, 2024, Prince of Peace, Isaiah 9:6 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Tiny sermon #1 Salutation – a poem by Luci Shaw Luke 1:39-45 Framed in light, Mary sings through the doorway. Elizabeth’s six-month joy jumps, a palpable greeting, a hidden first encounter between son and Son. And my heart turns over when I …
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