Category Archives: Sermons
November 5, 2023, All Saints and All Souls, Mtr. Meigs Ross, guest preacher
No text is available for this sermon. To listen to it, click the link below.
October 29, 2023, All About You, Matthew 22:34-46 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. An outline is given below. Another test for Jesus – theological this time, (thus, a lawyer, who was an expert on the law), rather than political (render unto Caesar) – What is the most important commandment? Is it most important to observe the Sabbath? To be …
October 22, 2023, Pledging Allegiance, Matthew 22:15-22 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. An outline of the sermon is given below. The Pharisees came to Jesus with a loaded question: “Is it right to pay the poll tax to the Emperor or not?” Now, there were several things going on here. The coin required for the poll tax was …
October 15, 2023, What to Wear to a Banquet, Matthew 22:1-14 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The outline is below. I just wanted to start with a sort of pre-sermon word: Our eyes and ears and minds and hearts have been bombarded this week by the violence and suffering of the people in Israel and Gaza. The wrath of the king in …
Grapes or Stinky Things, Isaiah 5:1-7 – guest speaker Carroll Boswell
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October 1, 2023, Holy Troublemakers, Matthew 21:23-32, – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is below. This conversation happens just one day after Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey – what we call the Triumphal Entry – and that’s important to remember. People spread their cloaks and palm branches along the road to honor …
September 24, 2023, Amazing Grace, Matthew 20:1-16 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is given below. The readings for today bring us smack up against the grace of God. Jonah has been sent, kicking and screaming, by the roundabout journey through a whale’s belly, to prophesy death and destruction to Nineveh, a great and very wicked city …
September 17, 2023, Is Forgiveness More Than Self-Care? Matthew 18:21-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is below. The popular wisdom about forgiveness these days is that we ought to forgive because it is good for us. I’m sure most of you know the saying from AA that refusing to forgive someone who has hurt you is …
September 3, 2023, Cross-bearing 101, Matthew 16:21-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link below. If someone asked you, “What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus?” or “What does it mean to be a good Christian?” what would you tell them? We might tell them something like what we read in Romans today, where Paul gives a pretty …
August 27, 2023, Who’s Got the Keys?, Matthew 16:13-20 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Almost thirteen years ago, when I first came to St. Philip’s, Dcn. Peggy gave me this big bunch of keys: keys for the Parish Hall door, the Sacristy door, the door into the Sanctuary, the door to the tool shed. There are …
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