Category Archives: audio sermons
April 7, 2024, What Mission Statement?, Matthew 11:28-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The second Sunday after Easter is traditionally Thomas Sunday; we read the story of Doubting Thomas, who wouldn’t believe that Jesus had risen until he experienced it for himself, until he saw and touched the physical body of Christ. And it wasn’t …
March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday, Joy and a Little Chaos in the Morning – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you read over the accounts of the Passion and Resurrection in all four gospels, you would notice a great many things, but there is one thing might jump out at you. When it comes to Easter morning, they don’t read anything …
March 30, 2024, Behind the Scenes, John 19:38-42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording of this sermon is available. It’s hard to know what to say tonight, or what to think. Nothing much seems to be happening. Tonight the stone blocks the mouth of the tomb. And just to make sure it stays that way, the religious authorities that be have set a guard to prevent any …
March 29, 2024, John 18:1-19:42, Why We Do What We Do – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. Of all the seasons of the Church year, Holy Week is probably the most deeply moving, as well as the most emotionally draining for us. All through Lent we’ve been walking through the Passion of our Lord every Friday, in preparation for this week. We have felt the …
March 28, 2024, Learn by Example on Maundy Thursday, John 13:1-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The recording is above and the text is below. Tonight we gather to do what Jesus and his twelve disciples were doing on the night of his arrest: we gather to share a meal. They were in Jerusalem on the first day of the Passover, and they had made preparations to eat the Passover Seder, …
March 17, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: Death, John 12:20-26 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One of the best known Bible verses about death is 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 55: “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” I think most of us could give Paul an answer to these rhetorical questions …
March 10, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: Forgiveness, John 3:14-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below: The strange story about the fiery serpents happens when the Israelites have been in the wilderness a long, long time. All through those years of wandering, God had provided for the people. When there was no water, God told Moses to strike …
March 3, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: Holiness – or – Don’t Mess Up the Living Room, John 2:13-22 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today is the third Sunday in Lent, and I’ve been concentrating on some Lenten vocabulary this year – some words that are important for our Lenten observance. I’ve been trying to focus on one word each week, and to look at it …
February 25, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: The Cross, Mark 8:31-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. An outline of the text is below. The Consecration of Bishop Jeremiah – talk about the service – vesting – coming upstairs – full church, crucifer and torch bearers, St. Patrick’s breastplate – “I bind unto myself this day…” in hundreds of voices – then awaiting …
February 18, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: Temptation, Mark 1:12-13 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Here we are on the first Sunday in Lent. We have 36 more days of Lent stretching out before us, not counting the 5 Sundays, which are little Easters, little islands of rest for us, as we make our way through this …
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