Category Archives: Sermons
June 21, 2020, Just a Little Pregnant? Matthew 10:24-39 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000203 It is a true saying, and worthy of full acceptance, what a wise doctor once said to me: “It’s not possible to be a little bit pregnant.” There are many things we dabble at in our lives. As children we have favorite colors and foods and toys …
June 13, 2020, The God Who Sends, Matthew 10:5-15 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000198 Today we read about what you might call the first Christian missionary trip. Jesus sends out his twelve disciples, that small circle of men who traveled with him, who studied at his feet, who ate and talked and ministered by his side. Matthew, the author of the …
May 24, 2020, How Special Are We?, John 17:1-10 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000197 One of my least favorite childhood memories is playing team sports in gym class. It might have been softball or soccer or relay races: the sport itself wasn’t the source of pain. What I remember very painfully is standing in a group with the rest of the …
May 17, 2020, What the World Needs Now…. John 14:15-21, Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000195 There’s a great method of Bible study, very hands-on, where you print out the text of the passage that you want to study so you can write all over it, and circle things, and underline and draw connecting lines, without messing up your Bible. And one of …
May 10, 2020, Way, Truth, Life.com (John 14:1-14) – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000194 I’d just like to say here at the start that I hope you heard Fr. Bill Cooper’s sermon yesterday on this gospel reading because it was wonderful. And I especially loved the way he pointed out that Jesus shows us the way by his character, which …
May 3, 2020, Shepherd, Gate, Sheep, Lamb, John 10:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000193 Of all the images the Scriptures give us to help us know who God is, and specifically who Jesus is, I think it’s probably the image of the shepherd that people find the most comforting. There is something just unspeakably tender and comforting about seeing our Lord …
April 26, 2020, What Happens in Emmaus Doesn’t Stay in Emmaus, Luke 24:13-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000192 This is not my Sunday to be homilist in the combined services we are holding online during this time of quarantine, but I wanted to share my thoughts about the wonderful gospel passage we read on this Third Sunday of the Easter season. Last week we heard …
4 for the Lord – Mass for the Second Sunday in Easter April 19 2020
Here you may watch this morning’s service, if you missed it…
April 10, 2020, A Meditation for Good Friday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000188 When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” And some of the bystanders hearing it …
April 9, 2020, A Meditation for Maundy Thursday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000187 John 13:1-17, 31b-35 “Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The devil had already put …
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