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This is a full list of sermons presented at UUCCSM since mid-1999. Links to sermon texts are included when made available by their authors. Audio recordings are also available for most sermons presented after September, 2007 by our staff ministers and others directly affiliated with our church (just click the speaker icon next to each sermon where it's available*). Audio from guest speakers is posted only when we have their permission to share it.
Hard copies of sermons by Rev. Jeremiah Kalendae are available in the church office. Contact office assistant Sibylla Nash at office@uusm.org if you have a request.
"Leaving Room for Hope: Sermons for Uncertain Times," a book of Minister Emerita Judith Meyer's sermons, is available here.
**Please Note: Video recordings are available for sermons with a small TV icon showing at the bottom of the sermon listing. Just click the icon to watch the service.**
Consuelo Valdez is Director and Claudia Martinon and Rita Chairez are staff of Comunidad En Movimiento, a program of Proyecto Pastoral at Dolores Mission. It aims to prepare resident leaders to voice concerns effectively in the Latino immigrant community using the Christian Base Community organizing model.
Jim Conn is Urban Strategist with the United Methodist Church, and formerly Minister of the Church in Ocean Park, and Mayor of Santa Monica. He asks, "The great gifts of the Buddhist Way do not find much support in the culture of the Empire at war, but they make for good friends while living in times like these. What marks these times? What are the gifts?"
Blase Bonpane, Director and Chief Executive Officer of Office of the Americas, writes about his sermon, "Nation states have been part of an international war system for centuries. For over a hundred years a system of international peace has been under construction. Our task is to make that peace system operative."
Henry David Thoreau's life offers a multifaceted model of growth and fulfillment. An accomplished naturalist, essayist, social critic, student of world religions, and contemplative, Thoreau realized himself not by travelling widely but by observing acutely his own little world.
Is anxiety the gateway to insight or a debilitating state to be treated? It is both. Today we?ll consider the positive value of anxiety and how it has insights to offer about life and death and the importance of being true to ourselves.
Father's Day reminds us that our human lineage is precious and unique, yet also connects us to creation itself. Honoring our human bonds inevitably leads us to a broader sense of relatedness and responsibility for all life.
The culmination of this year’s RE program, this Sunday service features our children, youth, and teachers sharing all they’ve learned with the congregation. Come ready to laugh and to sing and to thank all our volunteers for their important work.
"We Stand Before You" is a Coming of Age Worship Service. It is an opportunity for the congregation to see and hear the teenagers’ points of view of life. Please join us to understand what the truth really is for these four unique, eighth grade UUs. Discover what they believe are their own fundamental freedoms.
Remembering those who died in war evokes powerful feelings in the living. What we do with those feelings may be the best tribute to the lives they lived and lost.
Belonging to a community is good for us in many ways. The benefits of community, however, are more than we realize. Commuity gives us life. We will welcome at both services the new members who have joined our church this year. The Annual Meeting takes place at 1230 today.
