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Online Sermons
 Many Turned Away
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Aug 23, 2009
One of the sorriest and most disappointing sentences of scripture, at least in the Gospels, is one that we read this morning - Chapter 6, Verse 66: Because of this many of his disciples turned back and no longer went about with him. Because what Jesus had been preaching was hard to comprehend and harder still to follow, they gave up and went away, back to their old ways.
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Eat This Bread
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Aug 16, 2009
Over the past three weeks we have been exploring Chapter Six of the Gospel of John. Our guide has been the Thought for Worship, which is printed at the head of the bulletin: I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. We find this thought woven in and around all the verses of this chapter.
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Hard to Swallow
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Aug 9, 2009
They come to the house under cover of darkness, singly or in pairs, but carefully no more than three in a group. They walk quickly and quietly so as not to be noticed. But they are noticed...on the same day every week, they are noticed. Because there are some in the old city who would arrest and torture them, even kill them, for what they do in that house just before daybreak.
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The Bread of Life
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Aug 2, 2009
Beginning last week, the lectionary directs us, on these summer Sundays, to the Gospel of John, specifically to Chapter 6, where Jesus speaks in various ways about being the Bread of Life. How many ways, I ask myself, can one preach on essentially the same text? The answer could be to preach on something else – one of the other lectionary passages: a psalm or the Old Testament reading or the epistle. That would do it.
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www.God.com.gov.org.edu.love
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jul 19, 2009
You’ll notice that the title of today’s sermon is an internet address for God: www.God.com.gov.org.edu.love. Those of you who are web savvy will know that there is an error in this address; it has to be www.God.one thing, not all those things: .com or .gov or .org or .edu or .net. But the title serves to illustrate my premise this morning that God is present at all these possible addresses, not just at one.
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Simple It Isn't
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jul 12, 2009
Let’s listen again to part of the lectionary passage for this morning. My guess is it was a little hard to understand the first time around: Paul’s writing is often dense and twisted, his thoughts convoluted and his sentences long. So, let’s hear some of it again:
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By the Way
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jun 28, 2009
Every time I read this passage from the Gospel of Mark about the healing of Jairus's daughter and the included story of the woman who was healed from her bleeding, I think about the importance of things that seem to happen 'by the way.'
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Spirit Power
by Rev. Kathryn Henry
Jul 21, 2009
When you think about it, there's a lot of talk these days about power.
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