Category Archives: Sermons
August 30, 2020, Standing at the Crossroads, Matthew 16:21-25 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000212 The book of Jeremiah contains 52 chapters, with 1,364 verses, and our Old Testament lesson today was just seven verses long. That means there is an awful lot of context that needs to be supplied if we’re going to make any sense of the reading. So I …
August 23, 2020, We Hold the Keys, Matthew 16:13-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
On the day that Peter, speaking on behalf of his fellow disciples as he often did, made his confession of faith to Jesus, “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God,” Jesus had a revelation of his own to make to Peter and the others. “You, Peter – and he was speaking to …
August 16, 2020, Something There Is That Doesn’t Love a Wall, Matthew 15:21-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To Listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000210 The story that we read this morning, of the conversation between Jesus and a distressed mother, is one I have always found troubling. We expect to hear compassion and kindness in the words of Jesus, and yet here, he seems to be harsh. He might even sound …
August 9, 2020, In the Eye of the Storm, Matthew 14:22-33 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000209 “Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds. And after he had dismissed the crowds he went up on the mountain by himself to pray. When evening came, he was there alone, but …
July 26, 2020, Snapshots of the Kingdom, Matthew 13:31-33,44-52 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000208 The parables we read today are a little different from the parables we’ve been reading the last couple of weeks. Instead of stories, they’re more like a series of brief, disconnected snapshots of the Kingdom. On the surface, they seem pretty random. We begin with our familiar …
July 19, 2020, Who Is the Enemy and What Did He Sow? Matthew 13:24-30,36-43 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000207 In the time of Jesus there was a law on the Roman books dealing with the crime of sowing weeds in the wheat field of another person. It was a particularly nasty and effective bit of revenge or sabotage against an enemy, because the particular weed that …
July 12, 2020, May We Be Soft Soil, Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000206 One of my favorite Collects in the Book of Common Prayer is the Collect for Proper 28, the Sunday just before Christ the King Sunday. It’s all about how we read the Bible. “Blessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant …
July 5, 2020, You’ve Got to Serve Somebody, Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000205 Jeremiah was a prophet in Judah in the years just before Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, swept in and conquered Judah and all the surrounding nations along with it. And in those days God gave Jeremiah a strange command. He told Jeremiah to make yoke bars and …
June 28, 2020, Kingdom Price Tags, Matthew 10:40-42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000204 A new phrase that has become commonplace in pretty much everybody’s vocabulary over the last four or five months is “essential worker”. Rarely does a day go by that we don’t hear or read or see something about essential workers, on the news or in the paper …
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