Category Archives: Sermons
March 14, 2021, Christian in 25 Words or Less, John 3:14-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000242 Imagine that you are one of those man-on-the-street reporters who walk up to random people and ask them questions. What kind of answers do you think you’d get if you asked them, “What is a Christian?” You’d probably get some pretty negative answers, people who would say …
March 7, 2021, Meditation on the Commandments, Exodus 20:1-17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000241 God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses at the beginning of Israel’s wanderings in the wilderness. He inscribed the words himself on tablets of stone on the top of Mount Sinai when he made his Covenant with the people of Israel. Moses carried them down to the …
February 28, 2021, Life Is Not a Game of Candyland, Mark 8:31-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000240 So, we seem to be doing a lot of harping on the theme of travel these days. If you’re reading the Lenten devotional that I sent out this year, you know that the theme that binds the different authors and writings together is the theme of pilgrimage, …
February 21, 2021, Three Companions, Mark 1:9-13 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000239 In the Ash Wednesday service, just four days ago now, I read from the Book of Common Prayer, an invitation to the holy season of Lent. We know that the word “Lent” isn’t in the Bible, just like the words “Easter” and “Christmas” aren’t in the Bible. …
February 14, 2021, Will the Real God Please Stand Up, Mark 9:2-8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000236 Like a lot of you, I think, Carroll and I are not cradle Episcopalians. We met in a Presbyterian mission church in inner-city St. Louis. When we moved to the North Country, we briefly attended a Wesleyan Church, and then we spent almost two decades in a …
February 7, 2021, Love Is Not a Package Deal, Mark 1:29-34 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000235 I became a mother when I was still in my teens. Being a new mom, and being barely an adult myself, I had a lot of insecurities about my ability to be a good mother. I struggled a lot with nursing, and I felt like an utter …
January 31, 2021, To Eat or Not to Eat: Is That the Question? I Corinthians 8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000234 I usually preach on the gospel reading each week, but today I want to talk about the New Testament reading, which today was from a letter Paul wrote to the church in Corinth. He was living in Ephesus at the time, but doing some long-distance pastoral care …
January 24, 2021, How We Become, Mark 1:14-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000233 One of my favorite childhood memories is a morning I spent fishing with my Dad when I was little. We had gotten up super early – so early that it was barely light, and when we got to the river the mist was curling up off the …
January 17, 2021, He Started It!, John 1:43-51 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000232 I talked last week about the theme of light that runs through the season of Epiphany, and specifically about what it means that Jesus is the Light of the world. Or at least I touched on that subject, since there is infinitely more we could say. Today, …
January 10, 2021, Moons of Jesus, Mark 1:1-8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000231 We’re in the season of Epiphany, which is all about light. The word “epiphany” means a sudden appearance or realization or illumination – an “aha!” moment. We use expressions like “it dawned on me” or “I see the light” because it’s light, literal or metaphorical, that gives …
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