Category Archives: Sermons
November 18, 2018, Designated Survivor – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000108 There is a show on TV called “Designated Survivor”. The title comes from a real contingency plan that’s been in place in our government since Cold War times. It says that anytime the President and Vice President, and all the other potential successors to the Presidency are …
November 11, 2018, The Widow’s Might – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000107 Let’s imagine you are walking down the street and you see a penny lying on the sidewalk. Do you pick it up? Maybe. Maybe not. A penny is not worth enough to be much of a temptation for most of us. Though I myself always pick up …
November 4, 2018, He Is Not the God of Ghosts, but of the Living – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000106 “Do you believe in ghosts?” Seeing as how it was Halloween this past Wednesday when we were working on Shepherd’s Pie for the Community Dinner, it wasn’t too surprising that that question came up. Do I believe in ghosts? I have to say, I’ve heard some very …
October 28, 2018, I Remember the Blue – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000105 There are at least four different accounts in the gospels of Jesus healing the blind. It’s a little hard to be sure exactly how many, because the different gospels tell the same stories in slightly different ways. And certainly there were many more blind people whose stories …
October 21, 2018, Holy Superheroes, Batman! – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000104 Friday evening our son Nicholas came over for dinner with the kids. Cameron, who is 12, was wearing a superhero sweatshirt – Marvel superheroes – and he made Carroll try to identify all five of the superheroes on his shirt. Carroll did pretty well; he got the …
October 14, 2018, The Gag Reflex and Fat Camels – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000102 Over the past few months I’ve been spending quite a bit of time in the dentist’s chair. And one thing I find difficult is having x-rays taken. After they lay the lead apron on you, they take the film, which is about the size of my cell …
October 7, 2018, Hard Hearts and Fresh Starts – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000101 Recently someone very dear to me went through a course of treatment at a rehab center for drug addiction. This person is now home, and doing much better, and I am so proud of them for being brave enough to begin the hard work of recovery. But …
September 30, 2018, Cut It Out – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000100 I’m going to start this morning with two stories. I saw a story in the news just a few days ago about a 69-year-old man named Myron Schlafman who recently made a public statement about something that happened this past summer. Myron’s hand got caught in a …
September 23, 2018, You’re Never Too Old to Be a Fool – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000099 We have a motto at St. Philip’s that you have hopefully noticed on our newsletter heading that goes like this: “Welcoming the weary, dedicated to discipleship.” It’s not something I made up out of the blue. It’s actually a kind of Reader’s Digest Condensed version of Jesus’s …
September 16, 2018, Love Lifted Me – Helen Harris, guest speaker
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000098 One late night, when I was a little girl, I got out of my bed. Finding my way, I moved my hand along the wall in the darkened hallway that led to the bathroom. I don’t remember falling down the stairs, all I remember is the sound. …
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