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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.**
Join us in celebrating Juneteenth, which commemorates the announcement of the abolition of slavery in Texas in 1865. Also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, Juneteenth is an American holiday honoring African American heritage and celebrated by people of all ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Zen Buddhism flourishes in Japan, and has infused richness into almost all of Japan?s cultural life. Before it took root in Japan in the twelfth century, it had been for five hundred years one of the great philosophical-religious movements in China. It has only recently been discovered by the West. Rev. Furrer will preach on this sermon topic purchased in this year?s Dining for Dollars auction.
Join us in celebrating our wonderful Religious Exploration children and youth, and the volunteers who serve as their teachers and advisors, with a very special interactive story about the happiness that comes from sharing our treasures with one another and with the world. Each of our RE classes will take part in leading the service, and we’ll also be honoring this year’s crop of graduating high school seniors with a special Bridging Ceremony.
Reverend Furrer will speak on those moments when we experience a radical reorientation leading to another way of seeing and understanding ourselves and our life. Readings will be from Barbara Rohde and D.H. Lawrence, with Memorial Day meditation and prayer.
Join us in celebrating the Coming of Age of Caitlin Cromer, Clelia del Piccolo, Galen Dodd, Felix Horan, Satyavan Kepper, Alex Kinsinger, Angela Lisovsky, Jack Sheehy, and Nicolaas Van Ooyen, as they share their religious credos in a worship service of their own design.
Zen Buddhism flourishes in Japan, and has infused richness into almost all of Japan's cultural life. Before it took root in Japan in the twelfth century, it had been for five hundred years one of the great philosophical-religious movements in China. It has only recently been discovered by the West. Reverend Furrer will preach on this sermon topic purchased in this year's Dining for Dollars auction.
In times of transition, how can we cultivate a sense of resiliency - the ability to bounce back from change - in ourselves, our children, and our congregation? Rev. Bijur is our candidate for settled minister. This is the second of two Sundays she will lead worship. Immediately following the 11 a.m. service, we will gather for a congregational meeting to vote on Rev. Bijur's call to ministry with our congregation. Don't miss this historic vote!
When we began our search process last year, Search Committee member Karl Lisovsky made a short movie about our congregation in which he asked members to talk about why they come to church. Some of our answers, and those of the Rev. Rebecca Benefiel Bijur, our candidate for settled minister, may surprise you. This is the first of two Sundays with services led by Rev. Bijur. (Watch Video)
"Our martyrs died so we could be / a church where every mind is free," declare the lyrics of Alicia Carpenter's beautiful UU hymn, "With Heart and Mind" (#300). Rev. Dr. Furrer preaching his fourth and concluding sermon on ministry, its customs and responsibilities, from whence it derives its authority, its future . . .
The central concern of the religious life is how to source spirit. Spirit is not something vapored or ephemeral but literally is breath, the sine qua non of one's life, central to our material existence. We learn over time how to source it and ride it like the wind. Without it there is no significant religious life. Paul W. Sawyer was ordained by the California Universalist Convention and the Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Van Nuys in April 1959. Reverend Sawyer received his preaching license from the Massachusetts Universalist Convention in 1954...and has been preaching ever since, almost 56 years.
