Selected Sermons

To give you an idea of the range of voice and themes shared in our worship services, we have compiled a sampling of sermons presented at the UUFCM.

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Sermons by the Rev. Dr. Nana’ Kratochvil:

• It’s an Exciting Time - April 14, 2013
• God’s Dog - March 10, 2013
• What Are You Going to Do When You Really Grow Up, Mother? - January 27, 2013
• Waiting for the Birth - December 2, 2012
• An Attitude of Gratitude - November 11, 2012
• Timing the Inevitable -October 14, 2012
• Forgiveness: The Hardest Thing We Must Do - September 9, 2012
• Thus Do We Covenant with Each Other - August 12, 2012
• Hope, Not Optimism - June 10, 2012
• Rolling Away the Stone - April 8, 2012
• A Thirsty World - March 25, 2012
• Covenant and the Courage to Learn - January 8, 2012
• 10 Years and Counting: A Liberal Religious Response - September 11, 2011
• The Kids ARE Listening, and Watching - August 14, 2011
• The Good Death - July 10, 2011
• The Not-Good Death - June 12, 2011
• Eve - The Mother of Us All - May 8, 2011
• The Traumatic Death - January 9, 2011
• The Guidance of Reason - March 8, 2009
• Loving Our Neighbor: During the Holiday and Continuing - December 14, 2008
• Prophetic Women and Men - September 21, 2008
• Renewing the Spirit - August 17, 2008
• Wisdom from the World's Religions - January 11, 2008
• Forgiving The Unforgivable - August 12, 2007
• Its Been A Bumpy Road - July 15, 2007

Sermons by Guy Newland:

• Wisdom Occupies Wall Street - A Buddhist Perspective
  (based in part on material by David Loy) - November 6, 2011
• Tolerance - June 26, 2011
• Giving - March 27, 2011
• Tasting the Apple -- On the Ethics of Curiosity - October 25, 2009
• Natural Selection and the Hope of Human Love - April 26, 2009
• Why the Dalai Lama Does Not Want You to Become Buddhist - October 26, 2008
• Dining with the Dead: Tales from the Crypt in Celebration of Easter - 2007
• Reflections on the Serenity Prayer - with Valerie Stephens 2006

Sermons by Dawn Daniels:

• Shared Ministry - April 10, 2011
• Stone Soup (story) - April 10, 2011
• Readings for Three Voices - April 10, 2011
• That Which Sustains - August 3, 2008
• Sowing Peace (story) - August 3, 2008

Resources for the August 2012 "Covenant" theme:

• http://www.minnslectures.org/archive/wesley/Lecture1.pdf
• http://www.minnslectures.org/archive/wesley/Lecture2.pdf
• http://www.minnslectures.org/archive/wesley/Lecture3.pdf
• http://www.minnslectures.org/archive/wesley/Lecture4.pdf
• http://www.minnslectures.org/archive/wesley/Lecture5.pdf
• http://www.minnslectures.org/archive/wesley/Lecture6.pdf

Some favorite sermons from the Church of the Larger Fellowship (CLF) Library:

(delivered by UUFCM Worship Director Dawn Daniels)

• Love and Death – Rev. Forrest Church
• The God Beyond – Rev. Kaaren Anderson
• Essentials of Humanism – Rev. Kendyl Gibbons
• The Impossible and the Laughable – Rev. Erika Hewitt
• To Keep One's Soul - Rev. Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley
• Religion Beyond Belief – Rev. Peter Morales
• Are You Stupid, or Just Unsure Which Jeans You Want? – Rev. Scott Tayler
• Covenantal—Not Creedal – Rev. Thom Belote
• God (and Variations on the Theme) – Rev. Jane Rzepka
• Dirt – Rev. Lynn Ungar