audio sermons

The service today was an instructed eucharist, so there was no sermon. Instead Mtr. Kathryn spent some time introducing the various parts of the worship and explaining the symbolism involved. To hear her teaching and the whole service – except… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110129_001 About five hundred years ago, a mathematician and astronomer named Nicolaus Copernicus caused quite a commotion by proposing a radical idea – that the sun doesn’t revolve around the earth like everyone… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110122_001 When we had our little farm, we got an aerial photograph of it from the US Geological Survey agency that does mapping. It was amazing to see our familiar farm from a… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110115_001 Some of us here in this room today might be old enough to remember August 6, 1945, when the American B-29 bomber Enola Gay dropped a five ton bomb on the Japanese… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here: 110108_001 I noticed recently – though it might not be a recent thing – that the Watertown Times has begun to run horoscopes, so that people can look up their sign of the… Continue reading

Following the recording of the sermon, there is music for meditation played by William Matson on the Irish harp. Click here to listen: 110101_001 In our upstairs hallway we have a dresser. There are two drawers in the dresser, and… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here:  140210_001 On June 25th, 2011, a magician named Steve Frayne, also known as “Dynamo”, performed a really spectacular illusion in front of lots of onlookers in London. As people watched, “Dynamo” apparently walked… Continue reading

To listen to this sermon, click here: 140203_001 Here is one of the more terrifying experiences you can have, if you are a fairly quiet and insecure person. Imagine that you are at a meeting, and you come up with… Continue reading

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To listen to this sermon, click here: 140120_001 This week almost three hundred people, traveling on a commercial airline, were killed when someone shot the plane down with a surface-to-air missile as it passed over the Ukraine. Violence between Palestine… Continue reading