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March 23, 2025, Saving the Fig Tree, Luke 13:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Remember that you are dust. And to dust you will return. Jesus has a very Ash Wednesday kind of message in the gospel today. Some people come to tell him about the Galileans who were slaughtered by the Roman governor, Pilate. “Do …
August 18, 2024, You Are What You Eat, John 6:41-59 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus said, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” Of all the teachings of Jesus, …
June 2, 2024, Do Not Love Me Like a Rock, Mark 3:1-6 – guest speaker, Carroll Boswell
To listen to the sermon plus a little beyond it, click the link above. The text is below. 1. When did Jesus get angry? What is the first event that pops into your mind when you try to imagine Jesus being angry? Most people think immediately of Jesus making the whip and clearing the Temple. …
May 19, 2024, Can These Dry Bones Live?, Acts 2:1-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
As above the recording, so below the text. If you have been in the Episcopal Church, or the Catholic Church, any of the liturgical churches, for a good long while, as most of us have, you will know that the church has a calendar. Every year we cycle through one of the gospels. Every year …
March 30 – Homily for Holy Saturday
It’s hard to know what to say tonight, or what to think. Nothing much seems to be happening. Tonight the stone blocks the mouth of the tomb. And just to make sure it stays that way, the religious authorities that be have set a guard to prevent any funny business on the part of Jesus’s …
December 10, 2023, Do You Want to Keep It? Mark 1:1-8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below: Nearly fifty years ago we had the exciting and terrifying experience of discovering that I was pregnant for the very first time. I was pretty young, and we’d been married less than a year, so it was a bit of a surprise …
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 …
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