Please join us for a special reception after both services celebrating Catherine Farmer Loya's 10th anniversary with our congregation.
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.**
October 13, 2013
Fluent in Faith
Monthly Theme: Change
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
October 6, 2013
Coming Out Day
Monthly Theme: Change
Janet Goodwin, Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Ian Lawrence (Organizer of amBi - L.A.'s bi social community, amBiLA.org) and Kate Harlan (Assistant Organizer of amBi and member of Neighborhood UU Church, Pasadena)
September 29, 2013
"Loaves and Fishes"
Monthly Theme: Fellowship
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
September 22, 2013
"No Limits"
Monthly Theme: Fellowship
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur
September 15, 2013
"The Journey Down the Mountain"
Monthly Theme: Fellowship
Christina Shu
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur will be worshipping with our church at De Benneville Pines UU Camp in the San Bernardino mountains.
September 8, 2013
"Gather the Spirit: Ingathering Sunday"
Monthly Theme: Fellowship
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, Director of Religious Exploration Catherine Farmer Loya, and Director of Music DeReau Farrar, worship leaders.
Note: Today we return to two services at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.
September 1, 2013
"Labor in the Pulpit"
Monthly Theme: Fellowship
Workers from Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice and Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, worship leaders
Please note there will be one service at 10:00 a.m. only. (We return to two services next week.)
August 25, 2013
TBD
Monthly Theme: Surrender
Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur with Pandora Scooter, worship leader
August 18, 2013
"Youth Trip Reflections on New Orleans"
Monthly Theme: Surrender
Emmalinda MacLean and Karl Lisovsky
August 11, 2013
"How Well Rounded are You?"
Monthly Theme: Surrender
Rev. Ernie Pipes
Guest musician Roy Zimmerman