Tag Archives: Christianity
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 …
May 12, 2024, Blessed and Fruitful and … Known, Psalm 1 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Sometimes I have nights – and I know you have them, too – where I lie there, exhausted but wide awake, my mind racing like a hamster on a little treadmill, running through lists of undone tasks, regretting bad choices and hurtful …
May 5, 2024, The White Robed Army, John 15:9-17 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. “No one has greater love than this,” Jesus said, “to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” When we hear this verse, we think, first of all, of the love of Jesus, who gave himself up to the death on the cross …
April 21, 2024, Shepherds in Training, John 10:11-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below. Today is Good Shepherd Sunday. Somehow, just those very words give me a feeling of warmth and safety. The image of Jesus as our Good Shepherd is one of the most comforting images in all of the gospels. It doesn’t matter if …
March 31, 2024, Easter Sunday, Joy and a Little Chaos in the Morning – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you read over the accounts of the Passion and Resurrection in all four gospels, you would notice a great many things, but there is one thing might jump out at you. When it comes to Easter morning, they don’t read anything …
March 17, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: Death, John 12:20-26 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One of the best known Bible verses about death is 1 Corinthians, chapter 15, verse 55: “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?” I think most of us could give Paul an answer to these rhetorical questions …
March 10, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: Forgiveness, John 3:14-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below: The strange story about the fiery serpents happens when the Israelites have been in the wilderness a long, long time. All through those years of wandering, God had provided for the people. When there was no water, God told Moses to strike …
February 25, 2024, The Vocabulary of Jesus: The Cross, Mark 8:31-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. An outline of the text is below. The Consecration of Bishop Jeremiah – talk about the service – vesting – coming upstairs – full church, crucifer and torch bearers, St. Patrick’s breastplate – “I bind unto myself this day…” in hundreds of voices – then awaiting …
February 4, 2024, Free to Serve, Mark 1:29-39 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Today, we come upon Jesus and four of his disciples – the only four who had been chosen so far – as they head back to Simon Peter’s house for dinner. It was the family home: Simon and his brother lived there, …
January 28, 2024, Love Trumps Theology, I Corinthians 8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One tricky thing about reading the Bible is that it was written two thousand years ago. The people who were writing were living in the ancient Middle East – they were raised as faithful Jews, schooled in the Torah – their lives …
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