Category Archives: audio sermons
July 26, 2015 – Grace – The Big Picture
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111203_001 There was a movie that came out about 15 years ago called “Pay it Forward” that promoted a beautiful idea. In the movie, the 7th grade Social Studies teacher, Mr. Simonet, gives his class an assignment – one big assignment for the whole year – think of …
July 19, 2015 – No More Walls
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111126_001 I almost always focus on the gospel reading each week, but this week I want to look more closely at the reading we heard from Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus. It’s not a very long reading, so I hope you don’t mind – I’m going …
July 12, 2015 – Born in Dysfunction
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111119_001 Having a large family, we had extra kids in our house a lot of the time. And one of the things I have noticed about our children’s friends is that as we got to know them, we could tell a lot about the household they came from. …
July 5, 2015 – All Too Familiar
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111112_001 Imagine that a visiting preacher was coming to Norwood; you’ve seen posters all over town for months. And everybody’s been talking about him, because everybody knows somebody who went to see him when he was in Syracuse last year, and there are amazing stories going around about …
June 28, 2015 – The Law Writ Backward
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111105_001 This year is the second year, year B, of the Lectionary, so we’ll be reading through the gospel of Mark, from the Pentecost season we’re in now up to next Advent, which marks the beginning of the new Church year. So we’ll be getting familiar with what …
June 21, 2015 – Who’s in the Boat?
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111029_001 Jesus and the twelve had spent a long day, surrounded by crowds, probably thousands, of desperate people, teaching and healing. Matthew says that on that day Jesus cast out evil spirits with a word, and healed everyone who was sick. And when night began to close in, …
June 14, 2015 – The Kingdom in the Dirt
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111022_001 Two months ago, the eager-beaver gardeners at our house decided we should document our 2015 garden by taking photographs to show its progress. It was such a long winter this year, and we were so excited that you could actually see dirt and grass out the windows …
May 31, 2015, Trinity Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell – Knowing the Unexplainable
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111008_001 My father was a good man and a very complicated person. I can tell you a lot of things I know about him. He was kind and gentle – when we had trouble falling asleep or when we were sick, he came in to turn our pillows …
May 24, 2015, Pentecost – Send Our Roots Rain
No text is available for this sermon. To listen to it, click here: 111001_001
May 17, 2015 – Jesus’ Commencement Speech, a sermon by Carroll Boswell
Here is a recording of this sermon. Below is an outline written after the fact. 110924_001 Today is graduation at Potsdam College. Commence is a very widespread American tradition. Four years of hard study, followed by a barely choreographed lengthy ceremony, some of the year’s most boring speeches, all to get to that 10 second …
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