Category Archives: Sermons
September 9, 2018, Prayers for Unity and Healing – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
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September 2, 2018, Who’s Your Boss? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000096 This weekend is the “Old Fashioned Harvest Days” festival at the St. Lawrence Power and Equipment Museum. Our own Gary and Irene are some of the organizers and supporters of the museum, and it’s a really fascinating place to visit, if you’ve never been there before. Set …
August 26, 2018, Talk Is Not Cheap – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000095 We’ve all heard the expression, “Talk is cheap” and it makes a lot of sense, right? We are surrounded by words day in and day out, blah blah blah, and really they don’t usually seem to mean very much. Turn on the TV at any time of …
August 19, 2018, I Am the Living Bread of Life – guest speaker, Helen Harris
To listen to the sermon, click here: Z0000094 My husband Michael and I frequently like to go for rides in the car with our dog Holly. There are times when we use the all too familiar TomTom or map search to find our destination. Well, we often take too many left turns or not enough …
August 12, 2018, Let Us Keep the Feast – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000093 A man named Dom Gregory Dix wrote a book called The Shape of the Liturgy, all about the history of how we celebrate the Eucharist. He describes what the Church was like in its earliest days – as far back as the time when there were still …
August 5, 2018, Being Hungry Enough – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listento this sermon, click here: Z0000092 There’s an old Ricky Nelson song you’ve probably heard before. It goes like this: I will follow you Follow you wherever you may go There isn’t an ocean too deep A mountain so high it can keep me away Last week we read the story about Jesus feeding …
July 29, 2018, Finding the You in Eucharist – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000091 One of the many ways to read the Bible meaningfully is to find yourself in the story. When you read the story of the Good Samaritan, depending on what’s going on in your life you might see yourself in the good, kind Samaritan you want to be, …
July 22, 2018, No Wall! – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000090 It’s been a little over a week since the General Convention of the Episcopal Church ended. Pretty much all of the delegates, bishops and priests and deacons and lay people, from all of the Dioceses in the United States should be back home by now and getting …
July 15, 2018, Being Risk Takers – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000089 I find the story of John’s beheading one of the saddest stories in the New Testament. It is also one of the most dramatic, full of hatred and sex and wild partying and revenge. The one thing you might not have picked up in reading Mark’s account …
July 8, 2018, God Without Vestments; or, How Do You Wear Your Divinity? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000088 I’ll begin today with a little Show-and-Tell. Since this is an Episcopal Church, when I prepare to celebrate the Mass every week, I put on special clothes for the occasion. I begin with my clerical shirt and collar: by tradition, a black shirt, and a white collar …
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