Category Archives: Sermons
September 27, 2015 – Amputation, Salt, and Refugees – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120204_001 Here is something that is very true about the Bible. Sometimes it isn’t very easy to understand. Sometimes it is. We read the twenty-third psalm, “the Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside …
September 20, 2015 – It’s Them Or Us – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120128_001 As you all probably know, this week has been full of adventures for the Boswell family. The flu that we thought Carroll had last Sunday turned out to be appendicitis, and by about 3:00 Monday morning his appendix had ruptured. It was kind of a close call, …
September 13, 2015 – Discipleship for Dummies – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
No recording is available for this sermon. I am a list-maker. I have lists all over the place – lists on the kitchen cabinet of the dinners I’m going to make this week, and grocery lists, of course, and lists of ideas for Christmas presents, and lists of books I want to read and books …
September 6, 2015 – See Our Desolations
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120114_001 I have been preaching long enough now, since our Sunday Lectionary goes in 3-year cycles, that I find myself preaching on passages that I have already preached about, and so it happens that I have preached once before on this story we just read, of the Syrophoenician …
August 30, 2015 – Camp Clean
To listen to this sermon, click here: 120107_001 We spent a wonderful week last week camping on the Connecticut shore. There are many things that can be said about camping, but one of the notable things about camping is that it is impossible to really keep things clean. If you’re at the beach there will …
August 16, 2015 – Holiness – Father Joel Grigg
No text is available for this sermon. To listen to it, click here: 111224_002
August 9, 2015 – Failure to Thrive
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111217_001 Have you ever spent most of your afternoon preparing a big dinner for your family, something like spaghetti and meatballs and garlic bread and salad, which they enjoyed very much – for the full twenty minutes or so it took to polish it off. And then, when …
August 2, 2015 – Grace … or Consequences
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111210_001 Ever since the first Book of Common Prayer was compiled by Thomas Cranmer, in 1662, Anglican worship has begun with a prayer called the Collect for Purity. I stand up here and I pray this ancient prayer every single week at the beginning of our worship. But …
July 26, 2015 – Grace – The Big Picture
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111203_001 There was a movie that came out about 15 years ago called “Pay it Forward” that promoted a beautiful idea. In the movie, the 7th grade Social Studies teacher, Mr. Simonet, gives his class an assignment – one big assignment for the whole year – think of …
July 19, 2015 – No More Walls
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111126_001 I almost always focus on the gospel reading each week, but this week I want to look more closely at the reading we heard from Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus. It’s not a very long reading, so I hope you don’t mind – I’m going …
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