Tag Archives: God
April 18, 2025, Good Friday, John 16:1 – 19:42 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The people, the ragged multitudes who followed Jesus like hungry sheep, who hung on his every word, who brought their sick and lame and demon-possessed to him by the thousands to be made well and whole – they don’t come off too …
April 17, 2025, Maundy Thursday, John 13:1-31 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this homily, click the link above. The text is below: Last Sunday Bruce and Susan led us in a Seder dinner. The Seder is the Jewish ceremonial feast observed every year at Passover to remember the great work of God in bringing his people out of slavery in Egypt by the hand …
March 23, 2025, Saving the Fig Tree, Luke 13:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Remember that you are dust. And to dust you will return. Jesus has a very Ash Wednesday kind of message in the gospel today. Some people come to tell him about the Galileans who were slaughtered by the Roman governor, Pilate. “Do …
March 9, 2025, There Is Only One Story, Luke 4:1-13 – Carroll Boswell, guest speaker
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I intend to focus on the last of the three temptations, but as usual I will seem to wander around before I get to it. I want to start with the story of how Kathryn and I got to New York. Once …
March 2, 2025, Listen! – Luke 9:28-36 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below: lot of times, the breakdown in a relationship has to do with a lack of listening: a wife feels like her husband doesn’t love her any more because he doesn’t listen to her. Or a child yells at his parents in frustration, …
February 23, 2025, Jesus Never Said I Had to Like You, Luke 6:27-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. We all know Jesus told us to love our enemies. But people like to point out that when Jesus told us to love our enemies, he never said that we have to like them – which can be a very comforting thing …
February 2, 2025, The Baby and the Sunrise, Luke 2:22-38 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. The thing about being in the dark is that you can’t really tell sizes and shapes and distances. That black shape over there in the corner looks like a big scary dog, maybe even a bear. But it’s only your jacket that …
January 26, 2025, His Mission Is Our Mission, Luke 4:14-21 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. Jesus was invited to read from the Scriptures in the synagogue in his home town. He opened up the scroll that is handed to him, the writings of the prophet Isaiah. he chooses a passage to read. And the reading began with …
January 19, 2025, Jars of Stone, Jars of Clay, John 2:1-11 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. One of the things that makes the gospel of John different from the other gospels is that John wrote his gospel as an old man, many years after his travels with Jesus as one of his close friends and followers. From this …
January 5, 2025, Growing Up – It’s Only Human, Luke 2:41-52 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I’ve been looking through boxes of old family photos lately – mostly pictures of my kids – at home, and on birthdays and holidays over the years. The funny thing about looking at old pictures is when I see a picture of …
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