Tag Archives: light
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 …
December 17, 2023, Afraid of the Dark?, John 1:1-28 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click the link above. The text of the sermon is given below. John tells the Christmas story a little bit different from the other gospels. He writes: “The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.” Instead of telling us the story about Mary and Joseph …
January 10, 2021, Moons of Jesus, Mark 1:1-8 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000231 We’re in the season of Epiphany, which is all about light. The word “epiphany” means a sudden appearance or realization or illumination – an “aha!” moment. We use expressions like “it dawned on me” or “I see the light” because it’s light, literal or metaphorical, that gives …
February 23, 2020, What Goes Up Must Come Down, Matthew 17:1-9 – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000179 Lately we have been blessed with quite a few days of sunshine and blue skies. Even when it’s still windy and cold outside, the bright sun always lifts my spirits and makes me feel more cheerful, and more hopeful. There’s something about light, about brightness, that is …
January 15, 2017, Jesus Is the Light, the Light of the World – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell
To listen to this sermon, click here: Z0000004 We’re in the season of Epiphany, which is all about light – dazzling, radiant, blinding light. There was the light of what must have been something like a super-nova that caught the attention of those star-gazers in Persia, a thousand miles or more from little Bethlehem. There …
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