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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.**
Both services will celebrate a Unitarian Universalist Christmas with carols, the Nativity story, and the passing of the light as we tenderly embrace our religious community in the dark of a silent night. The choir will sing at the 8 p.m. service only.
This year we offer a pageant with a twist, celebrating 12 different holidays from a host of different traditions, all wrapped up in one (more or less) tidy pageant. Join us in celebrating the spirit of the season together as one intergenerational community.
Like the rose in the wintertime, an infant is a sign of hope. Our Unitarian Universalist message is one of hope. There will be a Child Dedication during the service.
It is difficult to practice peace while the nation is at war. How might we practice peace? What does the statement of social witness on peacemaking have to offer us as we practice peacemaking?
The Rev. Jim Grant says, "I am writing this three weeks before the national election, trying to envision a sermon to be given a little over three weeks af ter that election; imagine my confusion! At any rate, without regard to winners and losers in the election, Advent begins on the Sunday I will be your guest preacher. The proposed UUA Article II, Identity talks about our Universalist heritage " . . . ever affirming the power of hope." If Advent is anything it is an affirmation of hope, seen in all of the traditional Christmas characters to say nothing of the hopeful fires of Winter Solstice. Druids, Shepherds, Magi, Emily Dickinson, and you and I all have in common the power of hope."
We come with grateful hearts to give thanks for all good gifts around us.
We pledge our gifts to the building up of our beloved community on Commitment Sunday. Please bring your 2009 pledge card to the service to present during a rite of commitment and plan to stay after service to celebrate and build community spirit.
Our church is a voluntary organization that depends on your monetary generosity in order to thrive and grow.
(Daylight Savings Time ends - set your clocks back!) All ages are invited to remember those who have gone before us. You may bring a photo or remembrance of someone who has died this past year to place on the altar.
One of the principles of our faith tradition affirms the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and society at large. How does our faith inform how we live together in a democracy?
