Category Archives: Sermons
November 6, 2016, Sermon for All Saints – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130316_001 Two more days until the national elections, and on Tuesday (for all those of us who haven’t already done early voting) each of us will have the privilege and the solemn responsibility to decide which of the candidates for each office comes closest to having the qualities …
October 30, 2016, How Do You Live? – Guest speaker Carroll Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. This is a week to focus on the short things of life. The gospel reading was about Zacheus, the most famous short person in the Bible. But the sermon is not on him. The sermon today is going to be on a short passage from a very short …
October 23, 2016, Putting Our Face On – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130302_001 If you’ve ever watched the show “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” you might remember the scene where the kids are all getting ready to go out trick-or-treating. And one of the characters, Lucy, puts on an ugly, mean-looking witch mask and says, “A person should always …
October 16, 2016, Remember – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130223_001 Every week, when we celebrate the Eucharist, I raise the chalice full of wine and I say this: “This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you, and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Whenever you drink it, do this for the …
Wholly Holy
Here are Mtr. Kathryn’s notes on the conference on holiness she attended this past week at the Spiritual Life Center. For more complete comments, you can listen to her sermon here: 130216_001 Lord Carey: the Anglican view on the problem of defining holiness holiness is not a worldly concept, unlike kindness or justice or morality …
October 2, 2016, Is Your God Big Enough? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130209_001 What would you really think if Jesus stood right here and said to you, “If you had faith the size of a tiny little grain of mustard seed, you could command that spruce tree in front of our church to rip itself up by its roots and …
September 25, 2016, Poverty Is a Hell of a Thing – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130202_001 Episcopalians are not known for preaching about hell a lot. One reason for that is that contrary to popular opinion, the Bible doesn’t really have a whole lot to say about hell. And the other reason is that it’s a scary topic, and Episcopalians are fonder than …
September 18, 2016, The Abomination We Always Wanted – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130126_001 Jesus told his disciples, and some Pharisees who were also listening, a story about a clever but not very honest steward, who had the responsibility of caring for his master’s worldly possessions. There aren’t any good guys in the story, because the master was not a particularly …
September 11, 2016, The Parable of the Searching Woman – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130119_001 People love to hear a dramatic conversion story, the experience of someone whose life was going down the drain, who was addicted to drugs and alcohol, who indulged in all kinds of aberrant sexual behavior, and who finally fell into a life of crime and ended up …
September 4, 2016, Making the Leap – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130112_001 Having been here at St. Philip’s for five years, I have come to know how devoted the people of our church are to their families. I have seen so many of you make sacrifices, big and small, for the people you love. I have seen you put …
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