Tag Archives: Jesus
November 10, 2024, Devouring Widow’s Houses, Mark 12:38-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon click the link above. The text is below: When Carroll and I bought our first house, lo those many years ago, we found an old brick farmhouse inside the St. Louis city limits. It had been built in the 1800’s and then kind of swallowed up by the neighborhood that …
October 20, 2024, Who Is Greater Than Elon Musk? Mark 10:35-45 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon click the link above. The text is below. Thousands of years ago, when human beings decided to design their own gods, they pretty much invented the first superheroes. Zeus and Poseidon and Ares and Athena: they were basically just bigger, stronger, faster, more attractive versions of what all humans wish …
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 …
October 6, 2024, Rules Are for Cheaters, Mark 10:1-16 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to the sermon, click the link above. The text is below. I think probably we have all known people with broken marriages – maybe our own marriage, maybe the marriage of a good friend or of our parents – but we’ve all known someone whose marriage became a source of pain instead of …
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 …
July 21, 2024, Come Unto Me – There’s Work to be Done! Mark 6:7-13 and 6:30-44 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
Click the link above to listen to the sermon. A synopsis of the sermon is below. I’ve always loved the verse “Come unto me, you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest” – knowing that Jesus understands our human need for rest, for quiet, to be replenished But in the …
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