Since we have come together recently to work on our mission statement, it is a good time to think in broad terms about the meaning of our connection to each other in this church.
Sermons
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.**
Covenants
The Rev. Judith Meyer, speaker
What I Tell Myself When Times are Tough
The Rev. Judith Meyer
We all face our share of life's difficulties. Family, friends and fellowship can get us through a lot of them. But we also need to learn how to coach ourselves on our own.
The Heights of Humility
The Rev. Judith Meyer
The thirteenth century Islamic mystic Rumi writes that to be humble is to be happy, and to discover the way to spiritual ecstasy. How might we apply the neglected value of humility to our own faith?
The Trouble With Religion,
The Rev Kenneth Torquil
MacLean, guest speaker - Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday We all know that religion is a good thing, don't we? And we cherish freedom of religion, which is enshrined in the First Amendment of our Constitution. Though the government can require doctors and bus drivers and liquor store operators to be licensed for our protection, we would be scandalized at the idea of preachers getting a license from the government, except to perform weddings. Do think there might be a problem here? Kenneth MacLean became a Unitarian while he was a member of our congregation. He is minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Desert. He and Judith Meyer are exchanging pulpits this morning.
In My Study My Faith is Perfect,
The Rev. Judith Meyer
With these words, Ralph Waldo Emerson admitted that it was easier to think about his faith than to live it. The same is true for most of us.
This Future That is Now
The Rev. Judith Meyer
The long-awaited first days of the next millennium are here and they offer us a time to consider how our faith might shape the new era.
The Truth About Religious Tolerance,
The Rev. Dr. Lee Barker, guest speaker
The concept of religious tolerance is dear to the tradition of Unitarian Universalism. This Sunday, our guest minister will issue a challenge or two to that tradition. Lee Barker is Senior Minister of Neighborhood Church (Unitarian Universalist) in Pasadena. Judith Meyer is speaking at Neighborhood, in our annual pulpit exchange.
Christmas Vespers Services6 p.m. Family Vespers Service
6 p.m. Family Vespers Service
This service of carols and stories is especially for children and their families.
8 p.m. Candlelighting Vespers Servic
This quiet service of reflection and music concludes with a candlelighting ceremony.
Winter Holiday Pageant, Intergenerational Celebration
The pageant this year is a completely original play written by an intergenerational group. Come and see a trapeze troubadour, magical seeds, a lonely pine tree and, of course the Friendly Beasts!
The Last New Jerusalem
The Rev. Judith Meyer
The 1893 World's Parliament of Religions, the first global interfaith gathering in history, drew representatives of all the major faiths to a seventeen-day meeting in Chicago. The breakthroughs and the problems of that gathering illuminate the issues our modern interfaith world must resolve - especially during the holiday season.