Category Archives: Sermons
October 3 2021 The Myth of the Marlboro Man
I want to call your attention this morning to a condition that is threatening the lives of people all around us. The dangers of this condition have been scientifically proven, but for one reason or another people haven’t taken it as seriously as they need to. It’s a public health crisis, something the whole community …
October 3, 2021, The Myth of the Marlboro Man, Mark 10:2-16 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
I want to call your attention this morning to a condition that is threatening the lives of people all around us. The dangers of this condition have been scientifically proven, but for one reason or another people haven’t taken it as seriously as they need to. It’s a public health crisis, something the whole community …
September 26, 2021, It’s Not Just a Metaphor, Mark 9:38-50 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
So, how do you read a passage that tells you to cut off your hand, or cut off your foot, or tear out your eye? If you think this passage that we just read is really hard to understand, you’re not alone. The first instinct that we might have when we come upon this bit …
September 19, 2021, Free to Lose, Free to Love, Mark 9:30-37 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Today you can really feel that summer is over and autumn is just a couple of days away. We’ve been plugging away at getting ready at our house: picking plums and raspberries and cucumbers and squash to can or freeze or make jam, and all the other things we need to do to be ready …
September 12, 2021, Out of the Box and Into the Way, Mark 8:27-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: I am one of those people who need to make lists. I have lists all over the place – lists on the refrigerator of the dinners I’m going to make this week, and grocery lists on the blackboard, and lists of ideas for birthday presents, and lists of …
September 5, 2021, Neiman Marcus and the Kingdom of God, James 2:1-4 – guest speaker Carroll Boswell
to listen to this sermon, click here: Possibly everyone has heard of Neiman-Marcus, though probably none of us here have been in one. It is a luxury department store with its headquarters in Dallas. It caters to the very wealthy. It would be embarrassing to even go into one of them unless you had some …
August 22, 2021, Put on the Full Armor, Ephesians 6:10-20 – Mtr Kathryn Boswell
The reading from Ephesians today conjures up images of Roman centurions in old-time armor. But we still wear armor nowadays. People in the military wear armor. Firefighters and people in law enforcement wear armor. And there are other kinds of protection that we put on. Bicycle helmets for cyclists, knee pads and other protective gear …
August 15, 2021, The House That Wisdom Built, Proverbs 9:1-6 – Carroll Boswell, guest speaker
The subject for today is wisdom so we will read a lot from Proverbs. The book of Proverbs urges people to seek out three special things: knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. Proverbs urges us to pursue these things as of first importance. For example, Proverbs 2:1-5, 9-12a “My son [or daughter], if you receive my words …
August 8, 2021, Are You Hungry? John 6:35,45-51 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
It became kind of a joke during the pandemic lockdown how everybody suddenly seemed to be learning to make sourdough bread – so many people, that stores started running out of flour in a lot of places. It was funny “ha ha”, partly because making sourdough is such a long, smelly, messy process. But people …
July 25, 2021, A Thing of Unreasonable Abundance, Mark 6:30-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
The gospel today should have a very familiar ring for us, not only because it’s one of the best-known stories about Jesus, but because feeding people is something we do here at St. Philip’s. In fact, feeding people seems to be in our DNA. I remember reading the early records of our church, and way …
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