Inspiration Blog

No time to give up Antidepressants

By Annie TurnerSermon delivered at Haydenville Congregational Church Feb. 23, 2025 How many of you remember the hilarious movie, “Airplane”? Where Lloyd Bridges, with his hair standing on end and looking crazed, said, “I sure picked the wrong week to give up glue-sniffing!” Or “I sure picked the wrong week to give up drinking!” So the title of my sermon comes from…

Hero In Me, In All of Us

Sermon delivered at Haydenville Congregational Church Oct. 20, 2024. Hi, my name is Carla Imperial, and I am an imposter. Introduction In September of 2001, Megan and I set out on a much-needed respite from our demanding work lives. We headed as far north as we could before reaching the Canadian border, to a remote lake in Vermont. Our cabin had no…

Growing Together — Homecoming Sunday Sermon

Based upon 1 Corinthians 12:4-16, September 29, 2024 Rev. Mark Seifried @ Haydenville Congregational Church, UCC For more than a few years, I have been reading about the decline of the mainline church. The mainline church has historically included our congregation. Back in 2008, church historian Phyllis Tickle pointed out that every five hundred years or so the church experiences convulsions as…

A letter from a caring God

`As offered by Pastor Mark as part of his sermon Sunday , March 3. The service can be found on our Facebook page. How are you? Really. How are you? I just had to send a note to tell you how much I care about you. I saw you yesterday as you were talking with your friends. I know how much you…

Unraveling the Thread of Your Life

By Annie Turner Recently, I started knitting a Reiki shawl for my husband as a belated Christmas present. The yarn is this astonishing, hand-dyed Bad Sheep yarn in a multitude of bright colors. I finished one ball and got set to stretch out the next skein and roll it into a ball. Somehow, something went badly wrong. Satanically wrong. Throw the skein…