Category Archives: Sermons
June 9, 2013, Pentecost 3 – Our Song (Carroll Boswell)
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June 2, 2013, Pentecost 2 – Go to the One in Charge
To listen to this sermon, click here: There is a fairly well-known book by Rabbi Kushner that seeks to provide an answer for the age-old dilemma of the Problem of Evil, which is this: why do terrible things happen in a world governed by a good God. I haven’t read the book; I only know …
May 26, 2013 Trinity Sunday – Deacon Rick Littlejohn
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May 19, 2013, Pentecost – Expect to be Surprised
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May 12, 2013, Easter 7 – Refueling
To listen to this sermon, click here: A week from tomorrow Roseanna and Victoria and I, and my son Nicholas, are leaving for a road trip, driving down to North Carolina to see the 8 Boswells that live there, and then up to Cornwall-on-Hudson to see the 6 Boswells that live there. It’s a pretty …
May 9, 2013 – Ascension Day
There is no recording available for this sermon. Every Sunday, as we prepare to take Communion, we offer up the bread and the wine with these words: “We celebrate the memorial of our redemption, O Father…recalling his death, resurrection, and ascension, we offer you these gifts.” Every time we pray that prayer, we remind ourselves …
May 5, 2013, Easter 6 – Knowing is Loving – or Loving is Knowing
Have you ever known somebody you kind of hesitated to ask questions, because you knew they would really give you the answer? When our kids were struggling with a math problem, a lot of times they would come to me for help instead of Carroll, which would make a lot more sense, because it was …
April 21, 2013, Easter 4 – Introducing the Good Shepherd
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April 28, 2013, Easter 5 – Deliverance
To listen to this sermon, click here: I hate watching scary movies, because they stay in my head and keep on scaring me for a long time. I have nightmares, sometimes for months, and the images that frightened me keep coming back to me for years. The few times that I let myself get talked …
April 14, 2013, Easter 3 – Big Jobs for Little People
To listen to this sermon, click here: When our big kids were little kids, we did all their school at home, and one of the ways we found to make history less painful, or even hopefully fun, was to have the kids read biographies of the important people from the past. We found books at …
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 