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.**
November 9, 2014
What We Talk About When We Talk About Money
Monthly Theme: Sanctuary
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
November 2, 2014 - 6:00pm
Requiem (Remembrance) Vespers
Monthly Theme: Sanctuary
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, DeReau Farrar, and our Adult Choir and Section Leaders will lead a special evening service of loss and remembrance, set to the unforgettable music of the Faure Requiem.
November 2, 2014
Dia de los Muertos
Monthly Theme: Sanctuary
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Catherine Farmer Loya, Nica Eaton-Guinn, and Vilma Ortiz lead our annual intergenerational services of loss and remembrance. Please bring a photo of a loved one whom you have lost to share on our altar; if you would like it returned, please put your name and contact information on the back, or remember to take it with you after the service.
October 26, 2014
Living on the Edge
Monthly Theme: Loss
Nica Eaton-Guinn, Intern Minister
October 19, 2014
Under Every Grief
Monthly Theme: Loss
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
October 12, 2014
Coming Out
Monthly Theme: Loss
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Nica Eaton-Guinn and Interweave (LGBTQ Community and Allies)
October 5, 2014
Heaven on Earth
Monthly Theme: Loss
Rev. Rick Hoyt-McDaniels
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur will be preaching at First Church Los Angeles today.
September 28, 2014
Welcoming the Stranger
Monthly Theme: Love
Nica Eaton-Guinn, Intern Minister
September 21, 2014
Beloved Community: Building a World Transformed by Our Care
Monthly Theme: Love
Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti
How do we bring alive Unitarian Universalism's spirit of love in working to build the beloved community? How might our UU values and ethos serve to help transform the world? Join us this Sunday as the Rev. Manish Mishra-Marzetti, Senior Minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Cherry Hill, NJ leads us in worship. Rev. Bijur will be preaching at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church of Stow-Acton in Stow, MA on 9/21, as part of a weekend-long celebration of the congregation's new building.
September 14, 2014
Kin, Kindred, Kindness
Monthly Theme: Love
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
The sermon at our Santa Monica church, by Rev. Rebecca, will be Kin, Kindred, Kindness. Since this is our UUSM weekend at Camp de Benneville Pines, there will also be a "Worship in the Pines" service at camp, featuring our camp leaders and attendees.