Category Archives: audio sermons
February 14, 2024, What Is a Holy Lent?, Isaiah 58:1-12 and Matthew 6:1-6,16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today is the first day of Lent. Our liturgy for this day issues an invitation to us: “I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy Lent, by self-examination and repentance; by prayer, fasting, and …
February 11, 2024, Remember, Remember, Remember, Mark 9:2-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you have read the Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, you might remember that one of the books is called The Silver Chair, and it’s about two children, Jill and Eustace. The Silver Chair begins with Jill and Eustace being magically …
February 4, 2024, Free to Serve, Mark 1:29-39 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today, we come upon Jesus and four of his disciples – the only four who had been chosen so far – as they head back to Simon Peter’s house for dinner. It was the family home: Simon and his brother lived there, …
January 28, 2024, Love Trumps Theology, I Corinthians 8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One tricky thing about reading the Bible is that it was written two thousand years ago. The people who were writing were living in the ancient Middle East – they were raised as faithful Jews, schooled in the Torah – their lives …
January 21, 2024, God Changed His Mind, Jonah 3 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I’m pretty sure the story of Jesus calling Peter and Andrew and James and John was one of my kids’ all-time favorite Bible stories. Our Sunday School teacher, Abby Peck, who was the wife of one of our elders, and the sweetest …
January 14, 2024, He Chose You, John 1:43-51 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is below. When Jesus was saying good-bye to his close friends, on the night before he was crucified, he told them this: “You didn’t choose me – I chose you.” All hell was about to break loose, literally, in their lives. …
January 7, 2024, Who Saw the Star?, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link below. The text is below the recording. When I was a little girl, we lived in St. Louis, and one of our favorite day trips was to Grant’s Farm. This is a large estate belonging to the Anheuser Busch family. Horse-loving kids looked forward to seeing the …
December 31, 2023, What If God Was One of Us?, John 1:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is given below: 1. The passage we just read from John’s gospel gave us an account of the coming of Christ – one of the most important events in human history – in 304 words. How does he do that? It is an absolutely …
December 24, 2023, The Why Is What We Know, John 3:16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
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December 17, 2023, Afraid of the Dark?, John 1:1-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is given below. John tells the Christmas story a little bit different from the other gospels. He writes: “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” Instead of telling us the story about Mary and Joseph …
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