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Online Sermons
 Simply Silence
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jun 20, 2010
No doubt you have noticed, as I have, this year’s crop of signs advertising summer camps. Most of them are those inexpensive, corrugated plastic rectangles on spindly wire legs. New ones appear overnight, it seems, especially at major intersections, like Route 206 and Pottersville Road, and down by the train station.
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In Dire Straits
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jun 6, 2010
First off, I want to thank the wonderful world of the Internet (and my cousin in Florida) for these three tidbits.
If you put a buzzard in a pen that is six feet by eight feet and is entirely open at the top, the bird, in spite of its ability to fly, will be an absolute prisoner. The reason is that a buzzard always begins a flight from the ground with a run of ten to twelve feet. Without space to run, as is its habit, it will not even attempt to fly, but will remain a prisoner for life in a small jail with no top.
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The Trinity Trap
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
May 30, 2010
Our community has been reeling this past week from the occurrence of three deaths that touched this church congregation especially closely. And as we came together at three different times in three different churches to mourn our losses and to grieve together, we also have seen how closely our lives are intertwined.
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Merry Christmas
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
May 23, 2010
Happy Birthday to you all! Or as the title of the sermon oddly declares, Merry Christmas!
This day – Pentecost – marks what has come to be called the birthday of the church, the coming of the Holy Spirit to the disciples just as Jesus had promised in the Gospel of John. ...I will ask the Father and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth...the Holy Spirit.
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The Peace of Christ
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
May 9, 2010
Today is Mother’s Day again, but this is not exactly a Mother’s Day sermon. However, I do want to start with an appropriate little story that I came across in one of my journals.
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Love One Another
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
May 2, 2010
Two and a half weeks ago, on April 14, a volcano in Iceland, thought to be dormant, erupted, creating air travel havoc. The red hot lava melted glacial ice causing immense flooding. Smoke and steam shot seven miles up into the air, and a cloud of volcanic ash began to drift slowly eastward. Twenty-four hours later, volcanic activity was still intensifying. The cloud blew across the Norwegian Sea toward Scandinavia and then southeast across the Shetland Isles as far as the north coast of Scotland. The plume of gritty ash doubled again and again until it eventually stretched across most of Western Europe. A national shut down of British airspace began at noon on April 15. Millions of travelers on both sides of the Atlantic were left stranded on the ground.
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The Way
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Apr 18, 2010
Here is the question for the day: How did you first meet Jesus? Keep this question in mind as we go along in the meditation.
Some people are born into the faith, like being born into a family. For instance, I was “born” a Methodist. Both of my parents’ families belonged to Methodist churches in central Pennsylvania and as an infant, I was baptized in a Methodist church in South Jersey, where they had moved to and settled. We went to church just about every Sunday, I to Sunday school and my parents to their classes and then to worship. I heard Bible stories and memorized verses, sang in the youth choir, was active in MYF, and confirmed in the eighth grade.
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Ages Ago and Just Yesterday
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Apr 4, 2010
It was about a year ago the week after Easter, that Oz Kavanaugh died. For many years, Oz served this congregation with love and devotion - as an elder, the clerk of consistory, a wise leader in various prayer ministries, an avid participant in Bible study and - her favorite, I know - teaching children about Jesus.
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