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Online Sermons
 Tears and Whispers
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Nov 1, 2009
Perhaps some of you have heard the name Phyllis Parker. She lived during the Revolutionary War in Vealtown, later to become Bernardsville, and her father was the proprietor of the Vealtown Tavern, which was located in what is now the old Bernardsville Library. Phyllis was in love with a man named Dr. Byram, a local doctor who frequented the tavern.
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Restored in Spirit
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Oct 25, 2009
Good morning. My name is Bartimaeus, which simply means son of Timaeus. Some of you may remember me – I was here three years ago, same last Sunday in October actually, the one you Christian people call Reformation Sunday. They tell me that’s because on October 31 in 1517, a priest named Martin Luther nailed his complaints about the Roman Catholic Church to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany and that started a Reformation that ended up in a whole new way of believing in and worshiping God. Well, that was way, way after my time; I lived in the first century.
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Tell Us What We Want to Hear
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Oct 18, 2009
At the end of today’s Gospel reading, Jesus says to the twelve disciples: “...whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.” Not again! Jesus talking about how tough things will be for the ones who dare to follow him and his way.
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The Gift of Suffering
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Oct 11, 2009
“Life is difficult,” writes psychologist M. Scott Peck, the author of The Road Less Traveled. He echoes Buddha, whose “Four Noble Truths” begin with: “Life is suffering.”
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Trusted With God's Gift
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Oct 4, 2009
Most of you know that my husband Peter is a lawyer, a profession that he has undertaken and practiced with utmost seriousness and diligence for over forty years. He has a love for the law, and for justice with compassion, and he doesn’t have much tolerance for people who are stupid, conniving and selfish.
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Hey, Wait a Minute...
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Sep 27, 2009
Yesterday was our daughter’s wedding anniversary. Beth and Jim were married exactly eleven years ago, on Saturday, September 26, 1998. The card we picked out to send them had this message on the inside: “On the road of life it’s not where you go but who you’re with that makes the difference.” I found this message, or wording close to it, on at least three other cards. Only the pictures on the front were different. So, I suppose, the card makers have found this to be a good seller. Why?
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Keeping the Faith
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Sep 20, 2009
You might think it strange when I tell you that one of the books I read over vacation was The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer, selected and with introductions by Christopher Hitchens, author of the bestseller God Is Not Great. I also read and studied The Evolution of God by Robert Wright, whose thesis is that God most likely does not really exist but has been a human construct, as needed, over all these millennia.
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Words of Wisdom
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Sep 13, 2009
We live in a world of words, words, words. More specifically, we live in a world of talk, talk, talk. Constantly, it seems, there is someone talking with us, talking to us, talking at us: television, radio, cell phone, iPod, blogs and websites, not to mention perhaps a real other person. Everybody and his brother seem to have caught onto the idea that there is power in the word – power to convince or command, to defend or demand, to advertise or to claim outright. And power to the individual voice, as never before, to broadcast opinions and assertions that may or may not have any basis in fact or truth.
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