Tag Archives: Christmas
January 12, 2025, Bringing Home the Light, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. If you walked down Prospect Street last week you probably saw quite a few Christmas trees sticking up out of the snow banks along the road. The colored lights on porches and trees and bushes have been taken down, or at least …
December 29, 2024, The Splash of the Incarnation, John 1:14 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The first chapter of John is so beautiful to read and to listen to. It’s poetry, and it’s theology, and it’s all about the thing we call the Incarnation. The doctrine of the Incarnation is how Christians throughout the centuries have done …
December 1, 2024, Advent 1, Wonderful Counselor, Isaiah 9:6 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Who is this, so weak and helpless,child of lowly Hebrew maid,rudely in a stable sheltered,coldly in a manger laid?‘Tis the Lord of all creation,who this wondrous path has trod;he is God from everlasting,and to everlasting God Today is the first Sunday of …
January 7, 2024, Who Saw the Star?, Matthew 2:1-12 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link below. The text is below the recording. When I was a little girl, we lived in St. Louis, and one of our favorite day trips was to Grant’s Farm. This is a large estate belonging to the Anheuser Busch family. Horse-loving kids looked forward to seeing the …
December 31, 2023, What If God Was One of Us?, John 1:1-18 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is given below: 1. The passage we just read from John’s gospel gave us an account of the coming of Christ – one of the most important events in human history – in 304 words. How does he do that? It is an absolutely …
December 25, 2016, The Christmas Doll – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000001 Since it’s Christmas today, I wrote more of a story than a sermon. Once there was a little girl who got a doll for a Christmas present. It was a gift from her father. The little girl’s mother had died when the little girl was just a …
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