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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.… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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,… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120505_001 The Christmas stories from Matthew’s and Luke’s gospels are the ones that most of us find the most familiar and Christmassy – all about Mary and Joseph and the shepherds and the… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120428_001 Every year as part of our Christmas Bazaar we have a small raffle. It serves several purposes. Most obviously, the Women’s Guild earns money through the raffle that is used for the… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120421_001 Last night I watched part of a movie. It was the Grinch, with Jim Carey, which doesn’t really sound like the kind of movie you’d talk about in a sermon. But I’m… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:   120414_001 In the days and weeks and months since we last observed a holy Advent season the world has been an increasingly violent and scary place. There are wars and floods and earthquakes… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120407_001 This morning marks the beginning of Advent, the Church’s New Year’s Day. Today we lit the very first candle of our Advent Wreath. Every year, at this time, when the days are… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120331_001 I spent a fairly big chunk of my life in St. Louis, Missouri, which is a pretty big city. One of the things about a metropolitan area is that there are a… Continue reading