Category Archives: audio sermons
February 28, 2016, Repentance part 2: Out of the Miry Clay – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120707_001 Today is the third Sunday in Lent, and because it’s Lent, we are spending some time talking about repentance. We talk about repentance a lot during Lent; it pops up a lot in our prayers and in our readings all over the place; but just because we …
February 21, 2016, Repentance, part 1: What if There Were No Grace? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120630_001 On Ash Wednesday, just a week and a half ago, I read you the invitation, from the Book of Common Prayer, to the observance of a Holy Lent. It begins like this: Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our …
February 14, 2016, Never Forget Yourself – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Below is an outline of the sermon. To listen to it, click here: 120623_001 Immediately after Jesus was baptized the Holy Spirit took him on a 40-day retreat into the desert. 1. This is before Jesus had begun any ministry or done any works of power or shown himself to the world – a time …
February 10, 2016, Ash Wednesday, Smudged for Life – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
This link to the recording was broken but seems to be fixed now. If you have trouble with it, please leave a comment: 120620_001 When I was a little girl, growing up in the Catholic Church, the main thing I remember about Ash Wednesday is that you could look around you, in the store, or …
February 7, 2016, Listen Up – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120616_001 A lot of times, the breakdown in a relationship has to do with a lack of listening: a wife tells her husband, “You aren’t listening to me.” or a child tells his parents, “You never listen to me.” But what does it mean if I want someone …
January 31, 2016, Who Is My Enemy? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120609_001 Today’s gospel reading is part two of this passage from Luke. Last week we read that Jesus was in Nazareth, the town where he grew up, and on the Sabbath Day – which is Saturday – he went to the synagogue for worship. Jesus had already begun …
January 24, 2016, Now You See Me – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120602_001 Sometimes the thing that you want most in the whole world, the thing that you’ve pinned all your hopes on – sometimes that is the last thing you expect will really happen. Someday, yes, of course, you are sure of that it will, or you hope you …
January 17, 2016, What Happened at the Wedding – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120526_001 I received a priceless gift in the mail yesterday. It was from my mother’s cousin Jane, who was best friends with my Mom from the time they were little girls right up to adulthood. Jane and my mother lived back in the day when people wrote real …
January 10, 2016, Birth and Breath – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120519_001 Baptism is a bit of a mystery, because even though it is absolutely at the dead center of our life as Christians, not very many Christians really understand what it’s all about, or what really happens to us when the priest or the minister pours the water …
January 3, 2016, The Star vs. the Angels – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120512_001 The summer before my last year in high school, my family took the long drive from Georgia, where we lived, back to Texas for a Boswell family reunion. I don’t remember much about it except we stayed at a camping place near Lake Whitney. There were cabins …
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