Sermons

Eleven years of volunteering in New Haven, Ct!  Each mission trip is different and every year I come home, well exhausted, but also with a deep feeling of hope and vitality. Our youth and young adults are amazing, talented, thoughtful, concerned hardworking individuals and that... Read More

Exodus 20:1-17 & John 2:13-22                                                   February 25, 2018 A Scripture Reading from Exodus 20: 1-17 Without looking at your bulletin cover, How many of the Ten Commandments can you name? If you are like most Americans, the number is far... Read More

Mark 1:21-28                                                                        January 28, 2018  Listening for the Word and Responding to the Word   We are in the season of Epiphany – the season of light and revelation.  The season of learning who Jesus is, as Jesus is... Read More

A Christmas Message “Dare to Hope, Dare to Rejoice, Dare to Love”        In this time of the constant news cycle, when fear and anxiety are pervasive, how do we dare to proclaim the message of Christmas? How do you and I dare to hope, dare to work for peace, dare to rejoice, dare... Read More

From the Combined Service at the First Universalist Society of Hartland. Rev. Paul Sawyer provided a scripture introduction. Matthew 25:14-30                                                                            November 19, 2017 Combined Service – Thanksgiving Matthew... Read More

Matthew 22:34-40                                                                            October 29, 2017 REFORMATION SUNDAY! Listening for and Responding to the Word of God A Scripture Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 22:34-40 Happy Reformation Sunday! Here we are,... Read More

A Scripture Reading from the Gospel of Luke 24 Luke 24:13-35New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) 13 Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, 14 and talking with each other about all these things that h... Read More

Acts 10 (portions)                                                    March 26, 2017 A Scripture Reading from the Book of Acts 10 Scripture Intro: The story that we are about to hear from the Book of Acts was so important to the early church that it is told twice, first in Acts... Read More

Matthew 4:1-11 & Exodus 16                                            March 5, 2017 “Fasting and Feasting” Matthew 4:1-11  as the call to worship Narrator:      Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.  He fasted forty days and forty... Read More