Sermons
According to Legend
June 1, 2008
Rev. Bob Janis-Dillon
“The Wars We’ve Fought”
Rev. Bob Janis Dillon w/ Louis Yako
November 11, 2007
“The Call”
October 28, 2007
Rev. Bob Janis Dillon
“Walking to the Laundromat”
October 7, 2007
Rev. Bob Janis Dillon
“A Great-full Heart”
September 30, 2007
Rev. Bob Janis Dillon
“We Gather Together”
September 16, 2007
Rev. Bob Janis Dillon
Rev. Rob’s Letter to the Youth
“In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens”
May 13, 2007
Bob Janis Dillon
An Earth Day Call to Arms
May 6, 2007
Bob Janis Dillon
“Walking the Walk”
April 29, 2007
Ruth Coules
“The Perennial Church”
April 22, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
Easter Day
April 8, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
Easter Day
April 8, 2007
Bob Janis Dillon
“Thoughts on Achieving Happiness”
March 25, 2007
Ken Swearingen
“Good Books Save Souls”
March 18, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
“For You Too Were a Stranger”
March 11, 2007
Bob Janis Dillon
“A Theology for Open Minded Believers”
March 4, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
“When You are Silent, What Do You Hear?”
February 25, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
“Music Sunday”
February 18, 2007
“There is More Love Somewhere”
February11, 2007
Bob Janis Dillon
“Practicing to be a UU”
February 4, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
“Can I Get a Witness?”
January 21, 2007
Rev. Rob Gregson
“The Way of Prayer”
January 14 2007
John Gattuso
“New Beginnings”
January 7, 2007
Sister Antonia Cooper
New Year’s Eve Breakfast
“Everyday Miracles in a Muddy World”
December 24, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon & Rev. Rob Gregson
“Annual Christmas Pageant”
December 17, 2006
“Ritual, the Soul’s Seat Belt”
December 10, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon
Children, The United Nations and Little ’Ole Us
December 2, 2006
“Towards Meaning”
November 26, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon
Thankless Tasks
November 19, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Revelation - No One Left Behind
November 2, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
The Spirit World
October 29, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon
Embracing Change
October 22, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Maybe God Did Make Adam and Steve
October 15, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon
Carry On
October 8, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Goodness Me
September 23, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon
Liberals & Neocons Unite!
September 17, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Water Communion Sunday
September 10, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
New Beginnings
September 10, 2006
Bob Janis Dillon
Brother Carter’s Altar Call
June 4, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Life of the Congregation
May 7, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Heading Back to the Garden
April 16, 2006
Rev. Rob Gregson
Orphans and Widows
April 9, 2006
This is the start of Holy Week, of Passover, neither traditionally Christian nor traditionally Jewish. It seems to me that something valuable always emerges when we take the time to wrestle with the old tales, to see if one more time we might be able to find something that still beats like a heart, that is still alive, in the old bones of these springtime stories. This year, I realized that I have a new story to share that ties in nicely with the old ones, a modern day saga of another group of motley folks trodding along in the dust, hoping to find a new way home. And it is a story that involves us.
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Will You Still Need Me? Will You Still Feed Me?
March 19, 2006
How might we better nurture and draw on the cumulative wisdom of our “eldering” companions, and what might we do as a Fellowship to help everyone approach the “eldering”process with intention and courage? Please keep these two questions in mind, how to nurture our current elders and how to be more intentional ourselves about growing older and wiser, when we come to the discussion part of the service.
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Is God Angry with Us?
March 5, 2006
This is the final installment of Rob’s three-part sermon series on anger. We don’t often talk about God’s wrath level in Unitarian Universalist circles. In fact, for at least 200 years, ever since the first Universalists bucked the popular trend by asserting that a loving God would never condemn even one of His children to everlasting torment, liberal religionists have tended to leave the angry God of judgment and retribution well enough alone. And, generally speaking, this has been a good decision, one that mainstream Christianity eventually ended up following as well.
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The Best Revenge is Acting Out With Love
February 26, 2006
In this second part of the three part series on anger, Rob challenges the metaphor of anger as a kind of wild, ravenous beast. While our anger certainly causes pain and violence, there is another side to the equation. Becoming aware of our own rage can be the jumping off point for greater empathy and empowerment, not only the onset of poison and destruction.
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The Strange Grace of Anger
February 19, 2006
This is the first of a three part sermon series on the subject of anger. That may sound a little incongruous, since most of us do our best to avoid the subject, do our best to keep anger at bay from within and without. For the next few weeks, however, we’re going to throw caution to the wind and spend some quality time together pondering the power of anger for fostering both evil and good in our lives.
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A Terrible Joy
January 22, 2006
Terror and joy don’t always go together, of course, but when they do the possibility of something very powerful unfolding can happen. A terrible joy describes an emotional and spiritual crossroads, the middle point where we make choices about which direction we’re going to travel. That strange mix of terrible joy may even be the foundation for what some call a religious or spiritual experience.
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Democracy and Faith
January 8, 2006
Regardless of the various reasons why we come to this Fellowship, at the heart of our coming lies a free choice. Unlike some religious traditions, you commit no sin by not coming; in fact, at the heart of our tradition is one short, but incandescent idea: free choice. We choose, again and again, whether to associate ourselves with this gathered congregation. It’s not implicit in Unitarian Universalism: it’s at the center of everything we do.
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