Category Archives: Sermons
May 12, 2024, Blessed and Fruitful and … Known, Psalm 1 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Sometimes I have nights – and I know you have them, too – where I lie there, exhausted but wide awake, my mind racing like a hamster on a little treadmill, running through lists of undone tasks, regretting bad choices and hurtful …
May 9, 2024, Don’t Look Back, Acts 1:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The recording is above, the text is below. At his last supper with the Twelve, Jesus told them something that probably didn’t make any sense to them at the time. “You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am …
May 5, 2024, The White Robed Army, John 15:9-17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. “No one has greater love than this,” Jesus said, “to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” When we hear this verse, we think, first of all, of the love of Jesus, who gave himself up to the death on the cross …
April 28, 2024, What Is to Prevent It? Acts 8:26-40 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today we get to read our story. St. Philip doesn’t get a lot of air time in the Bible, But he does get a starring role in one of the most interesting and colorful stories in the whole book of Acts, which …
April 21, 2024, Shepherds in Training, John 10:11-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below. Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. Somehow, just those very words give me a feeling of warmth and safety. The image of Jesus as our Good Shepherd is one of the most comforting images in all of the gospels. It doesn’t matter if …
April 14, 2023, Was It a Ghost? Luke 24:36-49 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Above is a link to the recording of the sermon. The text is below. I think we have all felt worn out, at one time or another, from hearing nothing but bad news, whether it’s on TV or online or in the papers. Sometimes the news media try to make people feel better by including …
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 …
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