Category Archives: audio sermons
October 18, 2015, Who’s On First? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120225_001 Our society places a lot of stock in ambition. From earliest childhood, the whole educational system is set up to encourage us to be ambitious, and we reward those who rise above the rest. We make a big deal about grades and achievements, and we give prizes …
October 11, 2015, Live Like You’re Dying; Die Like You’re Living – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120218_001 We’ve lost a lot this past week. In the last few days, we had to say good-bye to two women who are very important to us, Ruth Blanchard and Joan Ladouceur, good friends and pillars of St. Philip’s for decades. And besides that, I know that many …
October 4, 2015, The Kingdom of Low Standards – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120211_001 Last week we had our Fall Work Day. If you were able to stay for lunch, after the cleaning and fixing-up was done, you know that we had a very special visitor for lunch. Three visitors, actually, because Noah Hargrave very kindly brought his parents along. It …
September 27, 2015 – Amputation, Salt, and Refugees – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120204_001 Here is something that is very true about the Bible. Sometimes it isn’t very easy to understand. Sometimes it is. We read the twenty-third psalm, “the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside …
September 20, 2015 – It’s Them Or Us – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120128_001 As you all probably know, this week has been full of adventures for the Boswell family. The flu that we thought Carroll had last Sunday turned out to be appendicitis, and by about 3:00 Monday morning his appendix had ruptured. It was kind of a close call, …
September 6, 2015 – See Our Desolations
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120114_001 I have been preaching long enough now, since our Sunday Lectionary goes in 3-year cycles, that I find myself preaching on passages that I have already preached about, and so it happens that I have preached once before on this story we just read, of the Syrophoenician …
August 30, 2015 – Camp Clean
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120107_001 We spent a wonderful week last week camping on the Connecticut shore. There are many things that can be said about camping, but one of the notable things about camping is that it is impossible to really keep things clean. If you’re at the beach there will …
August 16, 2015 – Holiness – Father Joel Grigg
No text is available for this sermon. To listen to it, click here: 111224_002
August 9, 2015 – Failure to Thrive
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111217_001 Have you ever spent most of your afternoon preparing a big dinner for your family, something like spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread and salad, which they enjoyed very much – for the full twenty minutes or so it took to polish it off. And then, when …
August 2, 2015 – Grace … or Consequences
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111210_001 Ever since the first Book of Common Prayer was compiled by Thomas Cranmer, in 1662, Anglican worship has begun with a prayer called the Collect for Purity. I stand up here and I pray this ancient prayer every single week at the beginning of our worship. But …
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