Past Worship Services

2024 – 2025 (Most recent first)

December 15, 1914 – “Welcoming Joy”

Mindful and Soulful readiness for joy is an invitation. Get Ready!

Welcoming Joy – Sunday Service! – 12/15/2024

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December 8, 2024 – “What’s Love Got to Do With It?”

First Corinthians is one of the earliest Christian documents, written by the Apostle Paul even before any of the Gospels were codified. I will look at 1 Corinthians 13, the famous paean to love. (Love is patient; love is kind; …love never ends) as a way to approach the world and thought of Paul and early Christians. There is much to learn about Church history here, and relevant lessons about how worldview influences what we see and know.

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December 1, 2024 – “Attached at the Heart”

Wisdom is knowing what to hold onto for dear life and what to release with ease. Now is a moment to take inventory.

“Attached at the Heart” – Sunday Service! – 12/1/24

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November 24, 2024 – “Deep in the Belly”

Let us make sense of the unexpected windows for clarity, insight and becoming—those welcomed and otherwise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q2f1POoWAw

November 17, 2024

New Member Service. Also, “Attending to One Another, A Special Service for a Time Such As This.” (Congregational Conversation) No Recording. Rev. David H. Messner.

November 10, 2024 — A Thriving Democracy of One (Recording marked Private)

November 3, 2024 – Lifespan Religious Education Sunday with Liz Cresslan and the RE Team

October 27, 2024 “I Don’t Sing” and other myths, with Adam O’Dell

Oct 20 2024 “Angelic Beauty” with Rev Dave Messner

Oct 13 2024 Jon Rice “The Annishinaabe and Zhigagong”

Oct 6 2024 Blessing of the Animals with Rev. Dave Messner

Sept 29 2024 – Our Lingering Poverty, Our Shared Purgatory / Rev. David H. Messner

Sept 22 2024 – In the Balance / Elizabeth McCreless

Sept 15 2024 – Breaching the Peace / Rev Dr David H Messner

“Breaching the Peace, An Invitation” (Look for the open spaces and plant there the seed borne in your heart. Then give it the freedom to grow and give yourself the liberty to watch in amazement as the rain comes to water it and the sun rises to nourish it.)

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Sept 8 2024 – In-Gathering / Water Communion

Sept 1 2024 – Labor Day Service

Marc Saphir filling in for Linn Orear.

Aug 25 2024 – Rev. Denise Cawley on “Friends of Every Age”

Denise Cawley

Aug 18 2024 – Rev. Dave/”Radical Disagreement and Fundamental Divergence” (A conversation about the virtues of fearlessness, equanimity, and perspective in a neverending season of schismatic politics)

Rev David H Messner

Aug 11 2024 – Rev. Dave/”Return to Center” (Placemaking and the grounding of the spirit.)

Rev David H Messner

Aug 4 2024 — Anne Clough (Wrong name and Title on the video. Rev. Cawley was sick & could not join us that day.)

July 28 2024 – the “Two Way Question Box Sermon” with Dr David R Messner (We’re having a dialogical sermon with Rev. Dave and the gathered congregation. Each of us should come with a few theological, ecclesial, cosmological, philosophical, or socio-political questions and some knowledge in case you are called upon to answer! There will be no cold calling, so be not afraid.)

July 21 2024 “That Which is Indestructible in Us” with Emma Farrell

July 14 2024 – “Community as Context” with Rev Mark Richards WUUSAN

July 7 2024 – “States of Being United” with Rev. Dr. David Messner

2023-2024 Church Year (Services listed in Reverse Order)

June 30 2024 – Rev. Dave Messner / “The Dance of a Grateful Life” (The most important resources for our spiritual life were fully present with us when we were six months old.) Pullman Morris and Sword Dancers. Last Service of the 2023 -2024 Church Year.

June 23 2024 – Virtual General Assembly Service. In-person Worship Service with Rev. Dave Messner and a Virtual GA Preacher.

June 16 2024 Service – “What is Juneteenth to Us?” Rev. Dave (A reflection on long-awaited freedom with echoes of Frederick Douglass). Then Annual Meeting.

June 9 2024 Sunday Service “Humble Pride” with Guest Speaker Madison McClendon followed by the annual BUDGET Meeting

June 2 2024 “Laying Our Flowers on the Altar”/Rev. Dave Messner (The greatest offering is that which we have to give of ourselves)

May 26 2024 Memorial Day Service: “Total War, Total Peace”/Rev. Dave Messner (The tyranny of moral in-betweenness).

May 19 2024 – Rev. Dave/“Your Children Will Prophesy, Your Elders Will Dream”

May 12 2024 – “Hold Everybody Up: Tightening the Weave of Community” – Sunday Service – 05/12/24

May 5 2024

April 28 2024

April 21 2024

April 14 2024 Change of Climate, Change of Mind – with Rev Dr David Messner

April 7 2024 – Rev. Scott Aaseng, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Advocacy Network of Illinois “Interdependence as Solidarity” (Interdependence is not just recognition of a given: that we are connected to and part of each other and the world.)

March 31 2024 Easter Sunday with Rev Dr David Messner