Join us for a joyful UU Easter celebration of the power of life over death. The Adult Choir will sing for both services.
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.**
April 20, 2014
Some Glad Morning
Monthly Theme: Salvation
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Catherine Farmer Loya and DeReau Farrar
April 13, 2014
Unspeakable
Monthly Theme: Salvation
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
April 6, 2014
Power of Two
Monthly Theme: Salvation
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
Emma's Revolution are last minute special musical guests for our Sunday Services, April 6, 2014. Smart, funny and informative -- like Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart with guitars. They will be performing a handful of songs integrated into the worship of both services. For more about these song-writing activists see: Emma's Revolution. Please help us get the word out.
March 30, 2014
UU in the Public View (YRUU Service)
Monthly Theme: Sacrifice
YRUU Youth
In our annual YRUU Sunday Service, UUCCSM's high school youth will lead a special service exploring UUism's reputation in the wider world - what do non-UUs know about us, and how can we articulate our UU identity and values to others?
March 23, 2014
Not in Vain
Monthly Theme: Sacrifice
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
March 16, 2014
Anybody Got a Match?
Monthly Theme: Sacrifice
Rev. John Morehouse
Unitarian and Universalists were once martyred for their faith. The Rev. Jason Sheldon recently asked: What would we be persecuted for today? What would we sacrifice our lives for? Join us as the Rev. John Morehouse proposes a few ideas worth burning about. John is the lead minister of the Pacific Unitarian Church in Palos Verdes, CA. Widely regarded as one of our most innovative and dynamic ministers, John will share his passion for our saving message and some of the ways UUs have been changing their congregations and the world.
March 9, 2014
Why I am a Unitarian Universalist
Monthly Theme: Sacrifice
Ray Goodman
Ray Goodman, and his late wife Betty, have been long-standing members of our congregation. Ray is a retired physician with a distinguished career in private practice and on the faculty of the UCLA School of Public Health. He is a past president of this congregation and the founder of the Ernie Pipes Lecture Series,
March 2, 2014
Men with Wings
Monthly Theme: Sacrifice
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
February 23, 2014
This I Believe
Monthly Theme: Prayer
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
February 16, 2014
Prayer as Listening
Monthly Theme: Prayer
Rev. Rick Hoyt
For our annual pulpit swap, Rev. Bijur will preach at First Unitarian Church, Los Angeles, while Rev. Hoyt preaches in Santa Monica.