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June 18, 2023, What Is the State of Your Heart? – guest speaker, Terri van Blommestein
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April 9, 2023, Sermon for Easter Sunday – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
/Click the link above to listen to the sermon. Below is an outline of the sermon. The Golden Halo – St. Augustine, J.S. Bach, John Donne – playful but also a great way of learning more about the great men and women in our But the winner – Jonathan Myrick Daniels – an Episcopal seminarian …
November 6, 2022, Reading the Pattern, Luke 6:20-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link below. I’ve set myself a project for this winter (and maybe for next winter, too) of knitting a poncho. I learned how to knit in Girl Scouts about a hundred years ago, but I’ve never really worked at it hard enough to get good at it. And …
March 20, 2022, Repentance part II – Getting Out of the Muck, Luke 13:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the above link. Today is the third Sunday in Lent, and because it’s Lent, we are taking some time to look closely at repentance. We always talk about repentance during Lent; but just because we talk about something doesn’t mean we have a really good understanding of what it …
March 13, 2022, What If There Was No Mercy, Luke 13:31-35
On Ash Wednesday, just a week and a half ago, I read you the invitation to the observance of a Holy Lent, from the Book of Common Prayer. It begins like this: Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the …
March 2, 2022, Ash Wednesday, Check the Expiration Date, Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
When I reached a certain point in my 50’s, way back when, I found myself doing a new and strange thing. We were subscribing to the Watertown Times back then, and every day, besides the NY Times crossword, the one thing I would always read was the obituary page. It wasn’t anything I thought about …
February 27, 2022, Just Listen, Luke 9:28-36 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Today, and every year on this last Sunday in the Epiphany season, we read about the event we call the Transfiguration of our Lord. This is the quintessential Mountaintop Experience. Many of us have had mountaintop experiences at one time or another in our lives as Christians – times when we’ve felt particularly close to …
February 13, 2022, Carrot and Stick, Luke 6:17-26 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is a well-known motivational technique that we call the carrot-and-stick approach. The entity in a position of power, say person A, wants to motivate the entity, we’ll call them person B, to behave in a certain manner, presumably a manner that person A considers good. Using the carrot-and-stick approach, person A makes use of …
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