Category Archives: Sermons
March 31, 2019, The Kind of Light You Need to Learn to See (II Corinthians 5:16-20) – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000127 Let’s start by re-reading II Corinthians 5:16-20. “From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The …
March 24, 2019, Choosing Life in a Death Dealing World (Luke 13:1-9) – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000126 On March 15th, we were all stunned, along with the whole world, as we began to hear news reports about a shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. A man with a gun entered a mosque during a prayer service. First he walked into the room where the men …
March 17, 2019, A Temple Made of Bones (Luke 13:31-35) – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000125 One of my favorite books is Watership Down, which is about a group of wild rabbits whose home warren is destroyed when humans bulldoze their plot of ground to build a new housing development. Only a handful of the rabbits escape with their lives. And they have …
March 10, 2019, Do I Know Who I Am (Luke 4:1-13) – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000124 Luke 4:1-13 When I travelled to Ireland with my daughters last year, Lucille gave me a very nice gift of something I’d never heard of. It was what you’d call a clutch, a handy little purse for carrying money and all the small essentials like your drivers …
March 6, 2019, An Audience of One – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000123 “Don’t be like the hypocrites.” Everybody is pretty sure they know what a hypocrite is. It’s somebody who acts one way on the outside, but inside they are something quite different. A hypocrite is a person we might say is two-faced, a person who might do the …
March 3, 2019, Glory Moments – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000122 People always say that brides look “radiant”. No bride ever looks ugly or dull or commonplace on her wedding day, not only because she is all dressed up like a bakery cake with lace and flowers, but also because she is all lit up from the inside. …
February 24, 2019, WWJD – Guest preacher, Helen Harris
To listen to this sermon click here: Z0000121 When we were young our parents taught us to always be kind to everyone that we meet. They also taught us the golden rule “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” Now some people have their own version of the golden rule …
February 17, 2019, Living the Good Life – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000120 What is the “Good Life”? When you think about those things that are top of the list for a happy and successful life, what are they? What are the basic things your parents hoped and prayed for you, as you went out into the world all those …
February 10, 2019, Woe Is Us – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000119 When was the last time you were filled with awe? By “awe” I mean that sense of wonder – that joy or delight that is so intense it’s almost a kind of fear, because the thing or the person or the place we encounter is so far …
February 3, 2019, The Good News: Love It or Throw It Off a Cliff – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000118 Ten weeks from today will be Palm Sunday, the Sunday of the Giant Mood Swing. Every year, in one relatively short narrative, we read the events of Holy Week beginning with the cheering crowds at the Jerusalem gates, welcoming Jesus into the city, throwing down their cloaks …
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