Category Archives: Sermons
March 12, 2017, A Sermon on John 3:1-16 by Helen Harris
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000012 Today’s Gospel is the greatest known in the bible and most often preached. “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. [Type a quote from the document or the summary of …
March 5, 2017, Lent 1, No Dirty Little Secrets – sermon by Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: My Mom was a good and truthful person, but I remember vividly one time that she told a lie – and not the fun, Santa Claus or surprise party kind of lie, but a real lie. I had gone with her in to the emergency room because she …
March 1, 2017, Ash Wednesday – It’s Quiet Out There – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. Preachers and writers, people like me, are very fond of using the image of the desert when they talk about Lent. It’s a good image for several reasons. One reason is that the forty days of Lent remind us of the forty years the people of Israel spent …
February 26, 2017, A Lamp in the Darkness – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon: Z0000010 The sixth book in the Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, is called The Silver Chair, and it’s about two children, Jill and Eustace, who are sent on a quest to rescue a prince who is being held captive by an evil witch. If you are one of those …
February 19, 2017, Practice Makes Perfect – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000009 This is our fourth and last week reading from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Three weeks ago, we read the Beatitudes, those unexpected qualities that define a true disciple of Christ: not the kind of qualities you’d expect from a prominent Christian leader, like a great reputation …
February 12, 2017, Legalism Is a Loveless Marriage – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000008 I met a man this past week who has been married much longer than the average couple. He didn’t tell me exactly how many years, but as far as I can figure they must have gotten married something like 70 years ago, and now, here they are, …
February 5, 2017, Despised and Desperately Needed – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000007 One of the many impressive and somewhat unbelievable things on TV police dramas is the way the official sketch artist is always able to sit down with the witness and make a drawing that looks exactly like the perpetrator of the crime – the “perp” in police …
January 19, 2017, Scraped Knees and Cluttered Closets – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000006 There may be people in the world who are full of pride and think they are God’s greatest gift to the world, but it seems to me, as I have come to know people a little better, that most of the people I know are quite the …
January 22, 2017, I Will Make You… – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000005 “ Follow me and I will make you fishers of men” – This is one of the most popular Sunday school lesson passages. We learned as children that “fishers of men” means missionaries. We were urged to consider missions as the highest of Christian callings, and urged …
January 15, 2017, Jesus Is the Light, the Light of the World – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000004 We’re in the season of Epiphany, which is all about light – dazzling, radiant, blinding light. There was the light of what must have been something like a super-nova that caught the attention of those star-gazers in Persia, a thousand miles or more from little Bethlehem. There …
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