Category Archives: Sermons
February 10, 2016, Ash Wednesday, Smudged for Life – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
This link to the recording was broken but seems to be fixed now. If you have trouble with it, please leave a comment: 120620_001 When I was a little girl, growing up in the Catholic Church, the main thing I remember about Ash Wednesday is that you could look around you, in the store, or …
February 7, 2016, Listen Up – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120616_001 A lot of times, the breakdown in a relationship has to do with a lack of listening: a wife tells her husband, “You aren’t listening to me.” or a child tells his parents, “You never listen to me.” But what does it mean if I want someone …
January 31, 2016, Who Is My Enemy? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120609_001 Today’s gospel reading is part two of this passage from Luke. Last week we read that Jesus was in Nazareth, the town where he grew up, and on the Sabbath Day – which is Saturday – he went to the synagogue for worship. Jesus had already begun …
January 24, 2016, Now You See Me – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120602_001 Sometimes the thing that you want most in the whole world, the thing that you’ve pinned all your hopes on – sometimes that is the last thing you expect will really happen. Someday, yes, of course, you are sure of that it will, or you hope you …
January 17, 2016, What Happened at the Wedding – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120526_001 I received a priceless gift in the mail yesterday. It was from my mother’s cousin Jane, who was best friends with my Mom from the time they were little girls right up to adulthood. Jane and my mother lived back in the day when people wrote real …
January 10, 2016, Birth and Breath – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120519_001 Baptism is a bit of a mystery, because even though it is absolutely at the dead center of our life as Christians, not very many Christians really understand what it’s all about, or what really happens to us when the priest or the minister pours the water …
January 3, 2016, The Star vs. the Angels – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120512_001 The summer before my last year in high school, my family took the long drive from Georgia, where we lived, back to Texas for a Boswell family reunion. I don’t remember much about it except we stayed at a camping place near Lake Whitney. There were cabins …
December 27, 2015, When the Light Came On – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120505_001 The Christmas stories from Matthew’s and Luke’s gospels are the ones that most of us find the most familiar and Christmassy – all about Mary and Joseph and the shepherds and the wise men. But John’s gospel, the gospel reading we read today as well as on …
December 20, 2015, Local Girl Wins Big – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120428_001 Every year as part of our Christmas Bazaar we have a small raffle. It serves several purposes. Most obviously, the Women’s Guild earns money through the raffle that is used for the ministry of the church. We also support the community by raffling off gift cards from …
December 13, 2015, With Joy As Our Compass – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120421_001 Last night I watched part of a movie. It was the Grinch, with Jim Carey, which doesn’t really sound like the kind of movie you’d talk about in a sermon. But I’m going to anyway. If you haven’t seen it, the story is about a place called …
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