Category Archives: Uncategorized
March 26, 2016 – Meditation for Holy Saturday Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
(A meditation based on Matthew 27:57-66) When evening fell on that last, worst day the stage was set; the final act about to begin. Most of the players had left the darkened stage and headed home: the restless crowds dispersed, the victors cautiously jubilant, the dispirited followers cloaked in sorrow and fear and weariness. The …
March 2016 CommonLife
march 2016 news format
November CommonLife
Click the link below to view this month’s newsletter: NOVEMBER 2015 news format
December 21, 2014, Advent 4 – A Most Unexpected Greeting
To listen to this sermon, click here: 110430_001 An angel named Gabriel arrived in the little backwater town of Nazareth one day, and entered the home of Mary, a young girl probably somewhat younger than Victoria and Anneke. Her parents had already arranged for her engagement to a local carpenter named Joseph, but when this …
A Meditation on the Transfiguration
As I returned home once, several years ago, from a particularly uplifting retreat, my arms full of dirty laundry, it seemed to me that my face must be shining at least a little bit like Moses emerging from one of his face-to-face conversations with God. I was back among the people I love and share …
February 2, 2014, Epiphany 4 – Safe in His Arms
To listen to this sermon, click here: 130805_001 Happy are the people whose strength is in you! whose hearts are set on the pilgrims’ way. When we were young, we, or at least a lot of us, I think, felt like we were pretty much indestructible. We did stupid, foolhardy things and we took risks …
April 21, 2013, Easter 4 – Introducing the Good Shepherd
To listen to this sermon click here:
Along the Way – a poem for Easter
Forty days he walked the ground After he laid our burdens down Now salvation can be found. Spirit I know that you come from above. You’re here to surround us And filled with God’s love Fill us your Glory We have none alone Keep us and gather us round your great throne Spirit I know …
Living Worship – a poem
“I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.” Rom. 12:1 The floury palm that presses once again into the yielding dough, it is “I love” that wrings the sopping rag and scours the pan, …
Lenten Luncheons
This is the schedule for this year’s Lenten luncheons: February 20 at St. Philip’s February 27 at Norwood UMC March 6 at Norwood Congregational March 13 at Knapps Station March 20 at Norwood Free Methodist March 27 at St. Andrew’s
St. Philip's Episcopal Church 