Category Archives: Sermons
July 12, 2015 – Born in Dysfunction
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111119_001 Having a large family, we had extra kids in our house a lot of the time. And one of the things I have noticed about our children’s friends is that as we got to know them, we could tell a lot about the household they came from. …
July 5, 2015 – All Too Familiar
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111112_001 Imagine that a visiting preacher was coming to Norwood; you’ve seen posters all over town for months. And everybody’s been talking about him, because everybody knows somebody who went to see him when he was in Syracuse last year, and there are amazing stories going around about …
June 28, 2015 – The Law Writ Backward
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111105_001 This year is the second year, year B, of the Lectionary, so we’ll be reading through the gospel of Mark, from the Pentecost season we’re in now up to next Advent, which marks the beginning of the new Church year. So we’ll be getting familiar with what …
June 21, 2015 – Who’s in the Boat?
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111029_001 Jesus and the twelve had spent a long day, surrounded by crowds, probably thousands, of desperate people, teaching and healing. Matthew says that on that day Jesus cast out evil spirits with a word, and healed everyone who was sick. And when night began to close in, …
June 14, 2015 – The Kingdom in the Dirt
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111022_001 Two months ago, the eager-beaver gardeners at our house decided we should document our 2015 garden by taking photographs to show its progress. It was such a long winter this year, and we were so excited that you could actually see dirt and grass out the windows …
May 31, 2015, Trinity Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell – Knowing the Unexplainable
To listen to this sermon, click here: 111008_001 My father was a good man and a very complicated person. I can tell you a lot of things I know about him. He was kind and gentle – when we had trouble falling asleep or when we were sick, he came in to turn our pillows …
May 24, 2015, Pentecost – Send Our Roots Rain
No text is available for this sermon. To listen to it, click here: 111001_001
May 17, 2015 – Jesus’ Commencement Speech, a sermon by Carroll Boswell
Here is a recording of this sermon. Below is an outline written after the fact. 110924_001 Today is graduation at Potsdam College. Commence is a very widespread American tradition. Four years of hard study, followed by a barely choreographed lengthy ceremony, some of the year’s most boring speeches, all to get to that 10 second …
May 10, 2015 – I Call You Friends
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110917_001 One of the great joys of growing up, and one of the very greatest joys of watching our children grow up, is that our relationship grows and changes, from the relationship of parent and child, to the relationship of one friend with another. It’s never quite perfect …
May 3, 2015 – The Story of This Vine and Them Branches
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110910_001 Below you will find the notes used for the sermon, but the entire text is unavailable. Norwood is a community where generations grow up together, or at least it has been that way. Our family was a modern, transplanted kind of family – growing up in St. …
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