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October 13, 2024, You Are the Camel, Mark 10:17-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus had a real genius for creating memorable images when he was preaching: the guy who worries about the speck in his neighbor’s eye while all the time he’s going around with a giant plank in his own eye; the one about …
September 29, 2024, A Matter of Stumbling Blocks, Mark 9:38-50 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. “If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea Jesus told …
September 22, 2024, Enankalisamenos, Mark 9:30-37 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. There is a wonderful Greek word in the gospel reading today. The word is enankalisamenos and it’s found in verse 36 – “He took a child and put him in the midst of them. And he took him in his arms;” enankalisamenos …
September 15, 2024, It Didn’t Work Out Like That, Mark 8:27-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
There is no recording of this sermon. The text is below. Most of us can remember times when our parents were upset with us. Maybe your Mom was mad because you didn’t clean your room. Maybe your Dad was in a towering rage because you used his tools and didn’t put them back where they …
July 28, 2024, What’s the Point?, Mark 6:30-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. There is at least one theme in our lectionary readings today, and that is the theme of “Signs and Wonders.” In the Old Testament reading, Elisha performs a Jesus-style miracle. It’s a time of famine, and Elisha is having dinner with the …
June 23, 2024, Mark 4:35-41, What Are You So Afraid Of? – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I am afraid of the dark. I know that seems baby-ish,, but if I am honest I have to admit that as old as I am, I am still afraid of the dark. When I walk Dobby around the yard late at …
June 16, 2024, The Gardener, Mark 4:26-32 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. An outline is given below. Springtime trips to Agway and Graber’s greenhouse – instant gardens But that’s not the kind of gardening Jesus is talking about. One of the first things about gardening is that it begins in the hands of the gardener. Imagine the Creator …
June 9, 2024, The Chaotic Family of God, Mark 3:20-35 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Last weekend MaryEllen and I were blessed to be able to attend the 156th Convention of the Diocese of Albany at the YMCA Camp at Silver Bay. The weather was picture-perfect the entire weekend; the facility itself was absolutely beautiful; the lake …
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 …
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 …
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