Sermon Archive
Past Services
Sermon Messages
Each collapsible menu below contains PDF or video links to sermons presented at HUUC during that year. Messages are posted with the permission of the speakers who delivered them.
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- 11/20/2022 – “By Your Endurance You Will Gain Your Lives” – Brother Tom Wagner (PDF)
- 10/23/2022 – VIDEO: “Open the Doors and See All the People” – Rev. Matthew Cockrum (Video on Google Drive)
- 10/2/2022 – “Onward Christian Soldiers” – Dr. Brent Smith (PDF)
- 6/19/2022 – “Free-ish Since 1865” – Kwame Kamau James (PDF)
- 6/12/2022 – VIDEO: “Summer of…Love?” – Rev. Matthew Cockrum (Video on Google Drive)
- 5/29/2022 “It’s Memorial Day…Lest We Forget” – David McIntire (PDF)
- 5/15/2022 – “Do Justice, Love Kindness, Walk Humbly” – Brother Tom Wagner (PDF)
- 4/24/2022 – “After Life” – Dr. Brent Smith (PDF)
- 1/30/2022 – “Validation” – Jeffrey Holmes (PDF)
- 1/9/2022 – “Memory and the Construction of Identity” – Dr. Brent Smith (PDF)
- 12/5/2021 – “Dear Darkness” – Rev. Matthew Cockrum (PDF)
- 11/21/2021 – “Ruth: A Harvest Time Comedy” – Brother Tom Wagner (PDF)
- 10/24/2021 – “The Reformation and Beyond” – Jim Stier (PDF)
- 10/17/2021 – “Did the Lord Send Donald Trump?” – Dr. Brent A. Smith (PDF)
- 8/22/2021 “Our Constitution and the Common Good” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 5/23/2021 “Spirit: Mystery, Freedom and Empowerment” – Brother Tom Wagner (PDF)
- 5/16/2021 – “The Crisis of a Liberal Faith” – Rev. Dr. Brent Smith (PDF)
- 4/18/2021 – “A Sense of Wonder” – Jessica Mae Sheldon (PDF)
- 3/14/2021 “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy” – Rev. Fred Wooden (Video on Google Drive)
- 2/21/2021 “The Quiet Place” – Rev. Kristen Orion (YouTube Video)
- 2/7/2021 “The Myths We Live” – Rev. Matthew Cockrum (PDF)
- 12/13/2020 “The Advent of a New Beginning in Our Land” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 11/22/2020 “Incarnation Incognito” – Brother Tom Wagner (PDF)
- 11/1/2020 – “A Triumverate Approaches” – Rev. Dr. Brent Smith (PDF)
- 5/24/2020 – “Expanded Remembrances” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 1/19/2020 – “The Spiritual Secularity of Martin Luther King, Jr.” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 12/29/2019 – “Scrooge, Father Time, and Alice’s White Rabbit”– Rev. Marie Cisneros (PDF)
- 7/7/2019 – “American Civic Religion” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 2/10/2019 – “One Human Family” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 12/16/2018 – “Nice is Nice — Be Good for Goodness’ Sake” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 10/14/2018 -“Acting in Good Faith: Is This the Time to Laugh or Weep?” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 6/24/2018 – “Loyalty Oaths and Non-Violent Resistance” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 1/7/2018 – Epiphany – “Wisdom for a New Year” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 10/11/2015 – “The Alternative to Religion?” – Rev. Dr. Harold Porter (PDF)
- 3/4/2017 – “Theodore Parker” – Bruce Froelich (PDF)
- 9/20/2015 – “The Stories We Tell” – Linda Palter (PDF)
- 8/9/2015 – “A Morning in Africa: Lessons Learned” – Scott Braspennimx (PDF)
- 5/18/2014 – “Church During Difficult Times” – Rebecca St. Clair (PDF)
- 4/20/2014 – “What If I Gave All I Have? The True Meaning of Easter” – Joshua EldenBrady (PDF)
- 3/30/2014 – “Change Is Gonna Come” – Tom Wagner (PDF)
- 2/2/2014 – “Imbolc – In the Belly” – Kwame James (PDF)
- 1/12/2014 – “Building the Beloved Community” – Rebecca St.Clair (PDF)
- 1/5/2014 – “Reproductive Justice” – Dani Vilella (PDF)
- 12/15/2013 – “The Power of Intention” – Alfredo Hernandez (PDF) with a poem by Angelo Hernandez Sias (PDF)
- 8/25/2013 – “If We Can’t Be Snarky, What Can We Be?” – Tim Hamlin (PDF)
- 8/18/2013 – “Spiritually Incorrect Enlightenment” – Dr. Linda Palter (PDF)
- 9/30/2012 – “Yes It Is Us” – Barb Kidd (PDF)