Below is a list of past sermons given at The Fellowship. Once you find the sermon you’d like to listen to, just click on the sermon title listed, and it will open that sermon in a page with the options to listen to it via the web, to download the MP3 for listening offline, or to open the transcript of the sermon to read.
by Rev. Roger Bertschausen
In spite of our best efforts to banish death from our lives (other thank in our movies and TV), death continues to be an essential part of human life. I think we need to allow its reality more into our lives.
Why I’m Inviting My Corpse to My Funeral
by Rev. Leah Hart-Landsberg
Illustrious Unitarian William Ellery Channing believed that if you worked hard enough to be good then you would be rewarded with entry into Heaven, which he called “salvation by character.” But the Universalist tradition of collective (or universal) salvation says, instead, that salvation is a process that happens here on earth and involves each one of us working together. Who really calls the shots here? Come for an atheist-friendly look at heaven and hell!
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by Ashley Horan, M. Div.
Our Unitarian Universalist faith has a strong thread of individualism coursing through its history–one that has sometimes made us cling more strongly to our uniqueness than to our common vision. But we are also a covenantal people, bound together by the promises we make to one another and by the web of life of which we are all a part. When we view ourselves as unique offshoots of one interconnected organism, rooted in the soil of our beloved tradition, how are we called to live our lives and serve the world?
By Rev. Steve Savides
Those things that fill us with a sense of awe both call us to life and provide us with a sense of power in our living. Reflecting on Jesus’ parables of the mustard seed and the leaven gives us a window into the wonder of small things, everyday events and opportunities that can be just as meaningful and motivating as the big things that more often catch our attention and imagination. How can each of us make time and space to experience the wonder of small things? Steve Savides is the Senior Pastor of First Congregational United Church of Christ of Appleton. His preaching this weekend at Fox Valley UU Fellowship is part of a pulpit exchange with Rev. Roger; Roger will be preaching at First Congo next summer when Steve is on sabbatical.
