Sermons
Most Recent Sermon
Welcoming is a Spiritual Practice, Darrah Bryans, Ministerial Intern
Sunday September 17 at 10:30 am, livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary.
Join us for our service this Sunday as we lean into our monthly theme of Welcome. Our Unitarian Universalist faith calls us to be abundant in our welcome. Radical Hospitality, an idea that arises from early monasticism, is the idea that we welcome the stranger as a member of our family. Together we will explore how our UU faith aligns with Radical Hospitality and what it means to be truly welcoming.
Previous Sermons
Ingathering Sunday & Water Communion
Sunday September 10th at 10:30 am, livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. On Ingathering Sunday, we celebrate our water communion and our September monthly theme: Welcome! All ages are welcome for this multigenerational service about welcome, belonging, and...
Embracing Possibility in Times of Change
Sunday, August 27 at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. This Sunday will be an entirely pre-recorded service shown on YouTube and viewed in a Parish Hall "Watch Party". Featured will be Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray, the ninth president of...
First Parish as Spiritual Home
Sunday, August 20 at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. Building on feedback received during this Spring’s interviews and listening sessions, this service in the round will include reflections, personal and interactive, on spirituality...
The Fifth and Sixth Principles
On Sunday July 30th we will be watching a service which is being shared by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Petoskey Michigan. They have been offering a series of online services about the seven principles of Unitarian Universalism on those months that have...
Finding Our Way Through Poetry and Music
Sunday, August 6 at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. The August 6 service will be a mixture of poems and music selected to inspire us on our life’s journey. First Parish Players will perform five songs and there will be a time for...
Messiness & Holiness
Sunday, July 23rd at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. This world is so messy. Spiritually, physically, relationally, politically. What place in the mess do we have, and how are we called to lead as UU? Join Ellie del Valle, our...
A Spiritual Just Energy Transition for Earth
Sunday, July 16th at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. Eco-Nuclear Solutions, a grassroots volunteer group of environmentalists, will lead the July 16 service with information that will surprise and challenge common assumptions about...
May the “forth” be with you
Sunday, July 2nd at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. On Sunday, July 2nd we will be hosting a guest preacher, Rumni Saha, MDiv, a recent graduate of Boston University School of Theology. We will gather in Parish Hall for a hybrid, in...
Every Body is a Good Body
Sunday, July 9th at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube from the Sanctuary. Our Summer Minister for Pastoral Care, Rev. Joanna Lubkin, leads a service on a theological endorsement of body positivity and body liberation: that every body is a good body, and...
Like Flowers, We Bloom When We Meet
Sunday, June 18 at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube and Zoom from the Sanctuary. For our last Sunday service in the sanctuary until the fall, we celebrate the centennial of the Flower Communion ritual in this multigenerational worship; if you’re...
What’s God Got to Do With It?
Sunday, June 11 at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube and Zoom from the Sanctuary. Please join us this Sunday for a joyful celebration of our graduating seniors as we recognize their transition from high school out into the world with our Bridging ritual....
Life on the Open Road
Sunday June 4th at 10:30 am, in person and livestreamed to YouTube and Zoom from the Sanctuary, Rev. Catie preaching. As we enter our theme month on Possibility and Becoming, we reflect on how Unitarian Universalists are challenged to be humble lifelong learners. Our...