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Online Sermons
 Paying for the Holy Spirit
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jan 10, 2010
It must be clear to you by this point in the service that it’s mainly about baptism today.
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Proceeding in a Spiritual Direction
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jan 3, 2010
Today we are celebrating Epiphany, which actually is this coming Wednesday, January 6, the twelfth day of Christmas. Epiphany marks the arrival of the Wise Men in Bethlehem and their coming to the stable birthplace of Jesus with their gifts, as you heard read in the Gospel passage and predicted, if you will, in the verses of Psalm 72.
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Miracles Begin as Babies
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Dec 20, 2009
Our sanctuary is filled this morning with the simple beauty of a traditional, classic Christmas. The greenery, of course, has been up for some weeks, but now poinsettias grace the chancel and the choir area. The candles in the windows are glowing, and we lit the fourth candle on the Advent wreath today. We are indeed blessed to have such a place as this in which to worship.
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It Could Be Jesus
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Dec 6, 2009
Last Wednesday evening, we began a two-session Advent Bible study called The Best Songs Come at Night, put together by J. Ellsworth Kalas, a Methodist pastor and teacher. In this study, Kalas invites us to enter into the wisdom of Advent and the Christmas season by exploring and contemplating some simple ideas that come to the fore at this time of year.
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Divine Interruption
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Nov 29, 2009
According to certain interpretations of the ancient Mayan Long Count, or cyclical, calendar, the world as we know it will come to a cataclysmic end on December 21, 2012. The patterns of life and time will be broken and the earth will be thrust into unprecedented global chaos. We will suffer shattering earthquakes, massive tidal waves and stupendous volcanic eruptions. In fact, signs of the coming catastrophe are already apparent - Hurricane Katrina, the Asian tsunamis, even the current economic collapse.
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Jesus Rules!
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Nov 22, 2009
Take a look at the heading on the first page of this morning’s bulletin. You’ll notice that today is Christ the King Sunday and also the Sunday of Thanksgiving, which is this coming Thursday, and also the reception of new members into our congregation. The challenge for your preacher is to tie all these individual strands together into one meaningful message. As one of my seminary professors was fond of saying, “Everything is related to everything else”; so...no problem.
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Time is of the Essence
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Nov 15, 2009
Having a husband who is an attorney has provided me with a lot of semi-useful information about law, most of which does me no good except to be able to turn a quaint phrase now and then. For instance, I’ve learned about the illegality of harboring an habitually barking dog or suffering a dog to run at large in the borough of Mendham. Early on in his career I was enlightened on unabandoned pre-existing non-conforming uses. I’m sure there’s more that I can’t recall, and that’s probably a good thing.
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Peripheral Vision
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Nov 8, 2009
Dateline: Hanover, New Hampshire, November 5, 2009, National Public Radio Morning Edition. The Hypotherm factory sits hidden in the woods not far from Dartmouth College. Inside, in a testing room, a jet of superheated ionized gas slices through an inch of plate steel. Jim Miller, vice president of manufacturing, says that when the world is making big heavy things, Hypotherm does quite well...because the firm is one of the top manufacturers of plasma cutting tools. But late last year, production of [big heavy things like] ships and cars pretty much ground to a halt. And sales of cutting systems at Hypotherm dropped 50 per cent.
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