Index of Sunday Services 1998-2003

Sunday, September 7, 2003

Millie Rochester, Interim Minister for Religious Education
Rev. Nina D. Grey, Senior Minister
Rev. David Arksey, Minister at Large
The Choir and Congregation

Gather the Spirit!
Our Annual Water Ceremony Ingathering, A Service for All Ages. Bring Your Water to Share!

In the old days of Unitarian Universalism, churches often closed during the summer. Not anymore. Most congregations, ours included, recognize the importance of being a worshipping, faithful, truth seeking, wisdom-growing people gathered throughout the year. Our shared journey is filled with many cycles of time's beginnings and endings, nature's seasons, and rituals to mark the creation and sustaining of community. We begin our newest church liturgical year with our Annual Water Ceremony Ingathering.

Sunday, September 14, 2003

Rev. Nina D. Grey, Sermon
Millie Rochester, Worship Leader

Already, Not Yet

What do Professor Gabriel Fackre, Christian theologian, and Polish labor revolutionary, past-president, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Lech Walesa, have in common? Dr. Fackre understood that what he called the Kingdom of God was a distant vision, perhaps never to be realized in this life, and yet in some essential way also a part of the immediate here and now. Lech Walesa understood that a vision and reality of freedom was somewhere ahead in time, in the future. Yet he, too, grasped that, to move toward such a vision, we have to embody its reality in the here and now. Today we think about living into our hopes and visions. Although they are in our future, not yet realized, yet to bring them into being we need, perhaps, to act as if we were already there. Purposes and goals can seem far away, but living into a vision can bring the hoped for reality closer. Today Rev. Grey reflects on how practicing 'living as if' might bring us closer to our ideals.

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Rev. Nina D. Grey, Sermon
Millie Rochester, Worship Leader

It's Not Easy Being Green

Join us, on this day of the Fall Equinox, in thinking of being and becoming 'green', more conscious than before of our interrelatedness with all being, dependent on the sustaining power of the natural world, and responsible for living well in our part of the web of existence. Today we celebrate the changing season, its beauty and its transience, and the parts we play in nature's living, growing, ebbing, dying and rebirth.

Sunday, September 28, 2003

Rev. Nina D. Grey, Sermon
Millie Rochester, Worship Leader

Turn, Turn: A High Holy Day Service

As Unitarian Universalists, we draw on a wide and deep variety of sources for our inspiration, our truth seeking and spiritual growing. Today we dip into the well of our Jewish heritage, joining in the celebration of the High Holy Days of the Jewish liturgical year, Rosh Hashanah (The New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement). The themes of the High Holy Days include beginning again, forgiving each other and ourselves for the ways we've fallen short, and making renewed commitments to lives of caring, reconciliation, and ethical living in the various aspects of our living. In what ways and how far do we have to turn to realign ourselves with our possible higher, deeper selves? In our explorations we will draw on music and other resources from the Jewish heritage.

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