Category Archives: Sermons
May 29, 2022, Maranatha! Revelation 22, guest speaker Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click on the link above. Today I get a chance to preach on one of my favorite topics: the End of the World. The text for the sermon today is the last three words of Revelation 22:20. However, I need to summarize the rest of the book of Revelation to …
May 22, 2022, I Am with You Always, John 14:23-29 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Looking back on our three-year cycle, I saw that the last time I preached on this gospel passage, I had just returned home from St. Louis, where I had been staying with my sister in the hospice center while she was dying of breast cancer. I talked about …
May 15, 2022, Love: As Old as the Hills, as New as the Cross, John 13:31-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
A man came to Jesus one day, and he asked Jesus a question. “Teacher,” he said, “which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” And Jesus answered him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first …
May 8, 2022, Adonai Is My Shepherd, I Lack Nothing, John 10:22-30 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. Today we read about a confrontation between Jesus and the Jewish authorities. It happened in December, or kislev in the Hebrew calendar, when Jesus was at the Temple in Jerusalem, during the Feast of the Dedication, which we call Hannukah. Most of the festivals we read …
Sermon for May 1 2022 Deacon Helen Harris, guest preacher –
Third Sunday after Easter Year C John 21: 1-19 Jesus first called some of the disciples into His ministry at the Sea of Galilee where they were fishing. He used the words “Follow me” after they had made a huge catch. We now find the disciples saddened by the crucifixion and confused at seeing Jesus …
April 24, 2022, Shaken to the Core, John 20:19-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. I got an email from a friend this past week, who is struggling with her faith in the face of all the suffering she sees in the daily news, especially the suffering of the people of Ukraine. “I still believe,” she wrote, “but I am shaken …
April 17, 2022, The Flash of Gold, John 20:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: This past Christmas, Carroll and I decided to get ourselves a joint Christmas present. And what we decided to give ourselves was a bird feeder. So, in the thick of winter we filled up our new squirrel-proof feeder with black oil sunflower seeds, which are supposed to be …
April 16, 2022, God on the Dark Side, Luke 23:50-56 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The stone is a major player in the stories of Holy Week and Easter. On Friday we hear how the Jews make good and sure that the stone is solidly in place at the mouth of the tomb, and how they set a seal set on …
April 15, 2022, Good Friday – At the Foot of the Cross, John 18:1- 19:42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Last night we sat around the table of Jesus’s last supper with his apostles, listening to his words, eating and drinking the bread and the wine that he gave us as a way to remember him always. We followed the example he gave us, by washing each other’s feet. If we felt awkward doing that, …
Sermon for Maundy Thursday April 14 2022
Our Diocese, as you know, is in the middle of a search for the tenth Bishop of Albany. And that means we’re spending a lot of time thinking about what we’re looking for in a Bishop, a lot of time thinking about what leadership qualities we would hope to find in the man or woman …
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