Archived Audio Sermons
Below you will find pre-2019 archived sermon audio files. Click on a title to explore. For more recent services visit our Youtube Channel.
A remembrance of those who died within the last year, those people who made a difference in our lives.
A celebration of the music at Holston Valley, the people who make it, and the place it has in our experience of worship.
Whatever questions are dropped into the Question Box will be answered.
What's the question that you ask when you walk into church? "What's in it for me?" Or perhaps, do you ask, "How can I make a difference here?" .
Today, at the Annual Meeting, we will vote on our new covenant.
How do we express agape love in these divisive times?
Current events seen from a Unitarian Universalist perspective.
Rev. Jeff is again visited by Coyote the Trickster. Coyote learns that Easter teaches us that salvation is no longer a matter of following the rules. No one can follow the rules all the time. Besides, life is no fun if it’s all about following the rules.
The pagan origins of our holidays and pagan influence in American culture.
What is knowledge and what is belief? What is faith?
My immigrant experience: the good, the not so good and the hopeful.
The concept of the Beloved Community, the idea that the work toward Justice is a generational thing... meaning that we will be discouraged if we only look at short term results.
The value and the challenge of living in community. And the cost.
Love and all that kinda stuff.
Those who would make abortion illegal have created a fog. The way to see the issue clearly is to turn on your foglamps.
We are often a hopeful bunch. Hope is the fertile ground in which ideas about justice and social action can grow. Join the social justice committee as we explore the concept of hope. We will look at the concrete ways we as individuals, as a congregation, and as a community manifest our aspirations as action. And we will challenge ourselves to dream bigger.
White Supremacy and White Privilege
What's in the future for Unitarian Universalists?
The root of "forgive" also provides us with the words, "duty" and "gift." How do you suppose these three words are tied together?
Religious liberalism involves a willingness to affirm faith without certainty. This is not the same thing as faith without conviction. Religious liberals tend to hold faith claims with a certain tentativeness, which reflects a commitment to open-ended inquiry and the realization that truth is not given once and for all time.
In preparation for the darkest time of the year and the Festivals of Light that celebrate the return of the sun, we'll look at the benefit of darkness, physically and spiritually.
Service to humanity is absolutely critical to an enjoyable life.