Sermons

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120707_001 Today is the third Sunday in Lent, and because it’s Lent, we are spending some time talking about repentance. We talk about repentance a lot during Lent; it pops up a lot… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  120630_001 On Ash Wednesday, just a week and a half ago, I read you the invitation, from the Book of Common Prayer, to the observance of a Holy Lent. It begins like this:… Continue reading

Below is an outline of the sermon. To listen to it, click here:  120623_001 Immediately after Jesus was baptized the Holy Spirit took him on a 40-day retreat into the desert. 1. This is before Jesus had begun any ministry… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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 –… Continue reading

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.… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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,… Continue reading

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… Continue reading