Category Archives: Sermons
December 2, 2012 – Advent 1, What Are You Waiting For?
To listen to a recording of this sermon, please click here: What Are You Waiting For We have new colors today, and that is because we begin a new season in our life as a church. Today is the First Sunday of Advent, the New Year’s Day of the church, the first day in the …
November 25, 2012 – Christ the King
To listen to the recorded version, click here: Christ the King Jesus told Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world.” When we read that, it sounds like Jesus is saying that we need to keep spiritual stuff and worldly stuff separate in our lives. It sounds like our life as Christians and our life …
November 18,2012 – The Fall of the Temple
Click here for the recorded version: The Fall of the Temple We catch the holy apostles in a tourist moment today, as they leave the Temple with Jesus. This building, which was Herod’s restoration of the original Temple that King Solomon had built about nine centuries earlier, was an incredibly impressive building, certainly one of …
November 11, 2012 – Giving Out of Our Poverty
To listen to the recording, click here: Giving out of our poverty A really good teacher is ready at all times and in all places to teach. Jesus was the best of teachers, and wherever he was he took the opportunity to use the things of this world to teach his disciples about the kingdom …
November 4, 2012 – Don’t Be Afraid to Ask
To listen to the recording, click here: Don’t Be Afraid to Ask One of the things I love about the Bible is that it is a very honest book. We might have been raised as children to believe that the characters in the Bible are spiritual superheroes, bigger than life and twice as virtuous, but …
October 28, 2012 – Teacher, let me receive my sight
Teacher, let me receive my sight When I took my first New Testament class, one of the things that I realized, that I had never really thought about before, is that a lot of work went into the writing of Scripture. Before, when I thought about the gospels, I believed that the Holy Spirit inspired …
October 21, 2012 – Slaves in Training
For the recorded version of this sermon, click here: Slaves in Training With the elections coming up in a few weeks, everyone has done a lot of thinking about what makes a good leader. We’ve been watching debates between the candidates, and there’s been a lot of talk about who was the winner of each …
October 14, 2012 – Too Much Stuff
For the recorded version of this sermon, click here: Too Much Stuff Everyone who came to help us with our loading and unloading these past few days has learned something shameful about the Boswells – we own way, way too much stuff. It’s embarrassing. We rented a huge UHaul truck on Wednesday morning, and when …
October 7, 2012 – Love, not Law
For the recorded version, click here: Love not Law I’m going to begin today with a story that I made up. It didn’t really happen, but the characters in the story are real people, and it’s something that might really happen. The story is about two of my grandchildren, Alan and Katie. Alan is a …
September 30, 2012 – How to Read the Hard Ones
How to Read the Hard Ones
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 