160 sermons transcribed, indexed & archived · 2004–2022 · permalink: https://divining.app/church/bull-run-unitarian-universalists-manassas-va.html
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Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingJoy & GratitudeFaith & Civic Life
“When we look at the polarisation in our nation today, the lines between people drawn more firmly than they have been civil rights era.”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingFaith & Civic LifeFear & Anxiety
“We pay attention to money for a whole lot of reasons.”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Worship & PraiseSin & RepentanceGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“That religion should uplift the spirit and celebrate the human person, That god should be worthy of our devotion, Salvation such as it is, Should be…”
Oct 12, 2022
Bible & ExpositionFaith & Civic LifeFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2022
Creation CareUnitarian Universalist IdentityPeace & Nonviolence
“One of the primary characteristics that distinguish U-turn universalism from other religious traditions is the great emphasis on reason And personal…”
Oct 12, 2022
HebrewsUnitarian Universalist Identity
Oct 12, 2022 · meaning of life
Fear & AnxietyImmigration & RefugeUnitarian Universalist Identity
Oct 12, 2022 · humanist human think rational
Identity & WorthFaith & Civic LifeHope & Encouragement
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingMarriageFaith & Mental Health
“If enough people with enough power can dare to look through the bars that separate them, break through the silence and saying to one another, in the…”
Oct 12, 2022
Salvation & GraceFear & AnxietySin & Repentance
Oct 12, 2022
Faith & DoubtPoverty & Compassion
Oct 12, 2022 · our church family
Friendship & BelongingMarriageGrief & Lament
“And when, a couple of weeks ago, my shoes sears, friends Swaddling their newborn son and fretting over the baby acne on his perfect face- Look at you…”
Oct 12, 2022
Fear & AnxietyGrief & LamentThanksgiving & Harvest
Oct 12, 2022
Grief & LamentSalvation & GraceSuffering & Perseverance
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Shame & GuiltFriendship & BelongingSalvation & Grace
“Human beings have long shaft and terribly frightened Power that our own imaginations the show on the imago dei, the images of god Age when men and wo…”
Oct 12, 2022
Sin & RepentanceHumanism
Oct 12, 2022
Racial JusticeFaith & Civic LifeImmigration & Refuge
“I heard him In front of the leadership of the civil rights movement from the 50s and 60.”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingBaptism & CommunionPrayer & Devotion
“Put food on the table for one more dinner Or to file one more report For the winkster through?”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Friendship & BelongingJesus: Life & TeachingsUnity of the Church
Oct 12, 2022
Work & VocationForgiveness & ReconciliationSuffering & Perseverance
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Friendship & BelongingMarriageFaith & Civic Life
“Because truly, think the heavens and the earth to all the jobs and god herself that are placed exist like that, where people might hold one another a…”
Oct 12, 2022
Forgiveness & ReconciliationPoverty & CompassionGrief & Lament
“There's a store in the buddhist tradition, About long long ago, When the buddha had taken a vow of poverty along with so many of his brothers and sis…”
Oct 12, 2022
Fear & Anxiety
Oct 12, 2022
Racial JusticeFriendship & BelongingIdentity & Worth
“Our leaders on every level, From the prince william county board of supervisors to the congregate congress of these united states, are so busily entr…”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingGrief & LamentHope & Encouragement
“About the hardware store I used to work at in high school that is now going to be a mini mall.”
Oct 12, 2022
Spiritual GrowthFriendship & BelongingJoy & Gratitude
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
GenesisJoy & GratitudeAttributes of God
“God created the heavens and the earth.”
Oct 12, 2022
Advent & ChristmasThe NativitySpiritual Growth
“And the tiny baby lying in a manger, dark, nothing but bad.”
Oct 12, 2022 · humanist human think rational
Creation CareFaith & Civic LifeParenting & Children
Oct 12, 2022 · light and dark
Grief & LamentLoneliness & IsolationCreation Care
Oct 12, 2022
Jesus: Life & TeachingsBible & ExpositionFriendship & Belonging
“And the hebrew scriptures tell us The great patriarch of the hebrew people made their living as shepherds.”
Oct 12, 2022 · government freedom elections civil rights
Racial JusticeBaptism & CommunionWork & Vocation
“In recent years, we unitarian-universalist have been active in issues of peace and the rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender person, and a…”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingPluralism & InterfaithFaith & Civic Life
“At the end of seven sermons, we have looked at the puritan heritage of religion in the united states, Remembering how, our own unitarian forbear, We'…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Evangelism & MissionGender & Sexuality / InclusionBaptism & Communion
“Impaired with that question Is the singular man's bold proclamation That, whatever the truth is, he lived, Annie died So that he might bear witness.”
Oct 12, 2022
JosephThanksgiving & HarvestParenting & Children
“We unitarian-universalist, uphold the power of the human condition to overcome adversity with courage, To answer moral failure with moral clarity, To…”
Oct 12, 2022 · standing on the side of love
Loneliness & IsolationPrayer & DevotionImmigration & Refuge
Oct 12, 2022
Creation CareGod the Father / CreatorCreation & Eden
Oct 12, 2022 · humanist human think rational
Identity & WorthSuffering & PerseveranceFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingSuffering & PerseveranceMarriage
“I remember reading once in high school that when these two big celebritiesBrad Pitttt and jennifer aniston, I think, got married, Their wedding vows…”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingWorship & Praise
Oct 12, 2022
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionJesus: Life & Teachings
Oct 12, 2022 · meaning of life
Evangelism & MissionThanksgiving & HarvestHumanism
“Full and worthwhile life, Outline by our limitations, Is not life without sorrow, The fullness of experience that absorbs sorrow and joy.”
Oct 12, 2022
Church Life & MembershipWork & VocationReason & Free Inquiry
Oct 12, 2022 · community better world common good
Creation CarePoverty & CompassionFear & Anxiety
“I wanted to change the world, but instead I ended up changing Myself.”
Oct 12, 2022
Baptism & CommunionMatthewSpiritual Growth
Oct 12, 2022 · government freedom elections civil rights
Racial JusticeFriendship & BelongingCrucifixion & Atonement
“Martinn luther king and the civil rights leaders who followed him Told our society that now at least it is safe enough to sing the songs and try to u…”
Oct 12, 2022
MarriageFaith & Civic LifeFriendship & Belonging
“Last year, taco, A federal marriage amendment trickled into her home and her small daughter And her partner began to discuss the implications of this…”
Oct 12, 2022
Immigration & RefugeCreation CareRevival & Renewal
Oct 12, 2022
Creation CareFriendship & BelongingShame & Guilt
“If this is so, Then it is our job is moral persons to put up resistance Cenotes To pay attention, To be not idlers lying still at the organic forces…”
Oct 12, 2022
Faith & Civic LifeSin & RepentanceUnitarian Universalist Identity
“What article in the Washington post?”
Oct 12, 2022
Unitarian Universalist IdentityFriendship & BelongingPluralism & Interfaith
“And it causes some of us, Unitarian universalist, Wonderful sweetheart, To mistakenly believe that all other religious folks in the world who are in…”
Oct 12, 2022
Immigration & RefugePoverty & CompassionFriendship & Belonging
“We're, sam and jeff live Driving, and tegus is a challenge, its kind of the combination of driving in new york city and Mexico city.”
Oct 12, 2022 · hope and light, the beloved community
Racial JusticeBeloved CommunitySuffering & Perseverance
“30 days of love begins today, martin luther king.”
Oct 12, 2022
Crucifixion & AtonementCreation Care
“In the psychology was jesus Yom kippur, the day of atonement In which believers are called to make right what is wrong, to apologize for all those da…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Friendship & BelongingMatthewUnitarian Universalist Identity
Oct 12, 2022 · meaning of life
Friendship & BelongingHeaven & HellThe Exodus
Oct 12, 2022
Grief & LamentWorship & PraiseFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2022
Thanksgiving & HarvestFriendship & BelongingBeloved Community
“Abbreviation of the eucharist bread and wine which commemorates The last supper jesus shared with his disciples.”
Oct 12, 2022
HumanismFriendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist Identity
“3 months I'm listening In the united states coast guard.”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingBaptism & CommunionHumanism
“And my anxiety, My sense of not belonging in off-the-charts.”
Oct 12, 2022 · standing on the side of love
Prayer & DevotionFaith & DoubtFriendship & Belonging
“We are the inheritors not just of the great rational tradition of unitarianism, but also of universalist theology.”
Oct 12, 2022
Thanksgiving & HarvestContentmentFear & Anxiety
“If it brings suffering, Which it often does, Then so be it, The suffering that comes from loving well, Part of what makes life Meaningful.”
Oct 12, 2022
Salvation & GraceRacial JusticeFear & Anxiety
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Evangelism & MissionJosephFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2022
Creation CareGod the Father / CreatorCreation & Eden
Oct 12, 2022 · standing on the side of love
Joy & GratitudeEntire SanctificationDivorce & Broken Relationships
“Ancestors and grandparents, or not, Set aside totally by any means, no longer screen, As they once were, As painful for me as not being the center of…”
Oct 12, 2022
Poverty & CompassionChurch Life & MembershipFear & Anxiety
“She makes her way down the aisle at meijer in the sunlight, streaming through the stained glass windows, The pews already warmed by that, like smell,…”
Oct 12, 2022
Lent & Holy WeekThe Exodus
“I'm trying to call the promised land out of the wilderness, and miserably.”
Oct 12, 2022 · standing on the side of love
Friendship & BelongingSalvation & GraceGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“Don't take the awesome potential of the thing we do here to impact the world for good or for ill too lightly display This gathering of souls.”
Oct 12, 2022
Poverty & CompassionShame & GuiltChurch Life & Membership
Oct 12, 2022
Immigration & RefugeGrief & LamentDoxology & Benediction
Oct 12, 2022
Unitarian Universalist IdentityPrayer & DevotionSin & Repentance
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Unitarian Universalist IdentitySalvation & GraceFriendship & Belonging
“Our bold student Applied himself wholeheartedly to his studies And the reformation sentiments that surrounded him at the university burns down deeply…”
Oct 12, 2022
Crucifixion & AtonementGrief & LamentFriendship & Belonging
“So there was Time The children of abraham, this whole nation Call Israel, Had Only one temple, And pilgrims came from all over Give offerings at that…”
Oct 12, 2022 · immigration identity
Immigration & RefugeRacial JusticeFaith & Civic Life
“And because of those new battle lines, in 2007, this town was not divided among those who are republican and those who are democrat, not divided amon…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Lent & Holy WeekBible & ExpositionPoverty & Compassion
“Another procession On the same day, On the other side of the city, Down from the mount of olives in the east, A jewish man rode a donkey And his foll…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
ExodusImmigration & RefugeAbraham & Isaac
Oct 12, 2022
Advent & ChristmasLoneliness & IsolationMarriage
“And so today I want to talk About the spaces between thing, The voice- Exactly the thing you need more of this holiday season.”
Oct 12, 2022
Thanksgiving & HarvestUnitarian Universalist IdentityNames & Titles of God
Oct 12, 2022 · our church family
Faith & Civic LifeRacial JusticeWorship & Praise
“There are some very strange articles of faith in the mormon canon, Not the least of which Is the whole idea that a flat broke magician named joseph s…”
Oct 12, 2022 · divine spiritual beings
Fear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist IdentityRacial Justice
“While the modern western celebration of the new year, if january, is characterized by boisterous merriment and late-night parties, The jewish new yea…”
Oct 12, 2022
Hope & EncouragementNames & Titles of GodFaith & Doubt
Oct 12, 2022
Immigration & Refuge
Oct 12, 2022
Creation CareFear & AnxietyChurch Life & Membership
Oct 12, 2022
Faith & Civic LifeAdvent & ChristmasIdentity & Worth
Oct 12, 2022
The Parable of the SowerService & Spiritual GiftsLoneliness & Isolation
Oct 12, 2022 · gifts giving gratitude
Thanksgiving & HarvestGrief & LamentFear & Anxiety
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingAngerWorship & Praise
Oct 12, 2022 · standing on the side of love
Prayer & DevotionCrucifixion & Atonement
Oct 12, 2022
Grief & LamentParenting & ChildrenFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2022 · feelings grief fear love
Suffering & PerseveranceJoy & GratitudeFriendship & Belonging
“Perhaps there is something more to suffering than simply chain That first noble truths of buddhism, Isn't that almost always translated Has What is s…”
Oct 12, 2022
Hope & EncouragementJoy & GratitudePoverty & Compassion
“The downtown dc area, where more valedictorians of their high school class is currently live and work than any other place in America, The area aroun…”
Oct 12, 2022
Bible & ExpositionJosephGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
“We will never adjust, Not completely.”
Oct 12, 2022
Forgiveness & ReconciliationUnitarian Universalist IdentityThanksgiving & Harvest
“The purpose of violence Is to reduce the feelings of shame And replace them, as far as possible, with pride and a sense of power over Atchison.”
Oct 12, 2022
Advent & ChristmasJoy & GratitudeFriendship & Belonging
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingHoly SpiritPoverty & Compassion
“We were in the dispo, Where the young woman reaches her arms up or down, if the case, maybe To rent like lead weights on the shoulders of the poor, i…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Friendship & BelongingPrayer & DevotionSpiritual Growth
Oct 12, 2022
Unitarian Universalist IdentityGender & Sexuality / InclusionReason & Free Inquiry
Oct 12, 2022
Grief & LamentUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Professional mourners, no elaborate Generalized cultural Ross's, five stages of grief, The powerful notion of a reason More than every funeral I have…”
Oct 12, 2022
Advent & Christmas
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Crucifixion & AtonementJohnRacial Justice
“This widely-held theological framework that should not be news to any of us, Opentable, That it was jesus's death On the cross, With suffering and pa…”
Oct 12, 2022 · liberal religion
Faith & DoubtPoverty & CompassionHumanism
Oct 12, 2022 · humanist human think rational
God the Father / CreatorFriendship & BelongingCreation & Eden
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingThanksgiving & HarvestBible & Exposition
Oct 12, 2022 · community better world common good
Fear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist IdentityThanksgiving & Harvest
“2 weeks ago, We talked about gratitude in our service, and I see these two sermons the sort of stuck together cuz I haven't been able to get some of…”
Oct 12, 2022 · standing on the side of love
Faith & DoubtFriendship & BelongingMarriage
Oct 12, 2022
Creation CareReason & Free InquiryJoseph
“Those wemo over these ideas- I'll draw to a close with a Home by william stafford, entitled a ritual to read to each other- Have taken poetic license…”
Oct 12, 2022 · liberal religion
Spiritual GrowthChurch Life & MembershipPluralism & Interfaith
“A refusal to examine the very real differences inherent in the world's religious traditions robs us of the opportunity and the obligation to tackle t…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church membership welcome sunday
Friendship & BelongingImmigration & RefugeRacial Justice
“For what it's worth, I think we're supposed to be at church and not a club, Not a school, Anything else for the specifically shaking and broadly spea…”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingChurch Life & MembershipBaptism & Communion
“We need One another If we are going to shake loose the acedia that has taken root in our culture and in some of our lives, That feeling of not sharin…”
Oct 12, 2022
Bible & ExpositionChurch Life & MembershipEvangelism & Mission
“One of them is from a unitarian universalist, the reverend unger, From mr bobblehead, in the order of service, Islam and world peace.”
Oct 12, 2022
Thanksgiving & HarvestIntercessory PrayerPsalm 23 / The Shepherd
“Invention: When kipling reminds us that the prayers of our muslim brothers and sisters are the world prayers and hours, she reminds us of our shared…”
Oct 12, 2022
Friendship & BelongingEvangelism & MissionParenting & Children
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Service & Spiritual GiftsFriendship & BelongingJoseph
“But if you refer to a little scripture, handily printed in your order service, it says: if someone hits you on the right cheek, so how you going to h…”
Oct 12, 2022 · government freedom elections civil rights
Faith & Civic LifeCreation & EdenSingleness
“Delegate jeff fredericks, attempt to force prayer at high school graduation ceremony, tries to decide whether an unmarried woman should have saved pe…”
Oct 12, 2022 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Abraham & IsaacFriendship & BelongingChurch Life & Membership
“No simple math, Exactly fairly large commitment.”
Oct 4, 2022
4th Principle: Free & Responsible SearchSin & RepentanceGrief & Lament
Oct 3, 2022
Faith & DoubtSin & RepentanceFriendship & Belonging
Oct 2, 2022
Friendship & BelongingPoverty & CompassionDivorce & Broken Relationships
Oct 1, 2022 · divine spiritual beings
Friendship & BelongingFaith & DoubtGrief & Lament
“On october 5th, there will be a gathering of 2000 people From across northern virginia For the public launch of voice virginians organizing for inter…”
Oct 22, 2016
Salvation & GraceFriendship & BelongingEvangelism & Mission
Oct 22, 2015
Friendship & Belonging
Jan 20, 2013
Racial JusticeFear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist Identity
“So, in the letter king wrote to those seven clergyman that caught the attention of the rest of the world, he laid out a concrete plan to end jim crow…”
Jan 13, 2013
Unitarian Universalist IdentityJoy & GratitudeFaith & Civic Life
“Insta, find a way beyond Feeling like Voice, Crying in the wilderness, Because what I was crying about With a limes of people Define love That would…”
Dec 23, 2012
Creation CareBaptism & CommunionGod the Father / Creator
Nov 18, 2012 · blessed moment spirit
Thanksgiving & HarvestLoneliness & IsolationEvangelism & Mission
Nov 11, 2012
Fear & AnxietyIdentity & WorthShame & Guilt
“Anxiety, although present, no longer cripples and endeavor when courage is present.”
Nov 4, 2012 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Hope & EncouragementFear & AnxietySin & Repentance
“God bless you and god bless the united states of America.”
Oct 28, 2012
Friendship & BelongingFear & AnxietyReason & Free Inquiry
Oct 14, 2012
Friendship & BelongingStewardship & GivingDating & Godly Relationships
Sep 23, 2012
Faith & DoubtNames & Titles of GodForgiveness & Reconciliation
Sep 16, 2012
Racial JusticeImmigration & RefugeSalvation & Grace
Sep 9, 2012 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Noah & the Flood
Aug 19, 2012 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Friendship & BelongingLoneliness & Isolation
Sep 25, 2011 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Spiritual GrowthPoverty & CompassionGod the Father / Creator
“And so it was that bob was there In the summer of 2008 in a community on the outskirts of an american megalopolis When the housing bubble burst And g…”
Sep 18, 2011 · church god jesus gospel spirit
Unitarian Universalist IdentityIdentity & WorthAdvent & Christmas
Aug 14, 2011 · humanist human think rational
Friendship & BelongingGender & Sexuality / InclusionJoy & Gratitude
Jul 3, 2011
Poverty & CompassionCreation CareRacial Justice
“You can debate Without debating current personalities.”
Jun 19, 2011
Fear & AnxietyUnitarian Universalist Identity
Jan 27, 2008
Worship & PraiseFaith & Civic LifeReformation Sunday
“I even have a quote from martin luther.”
Feb 11, 2007
Friendship & BelongingRacial JusticeLoneliness & Isolation
“We learned association with the thought of abiding is at the intersection of the two, because that we all From time to time In beloved community, Wel…”
Jan 7, 2007
HumanismThe NativityHope & Encouragement
“It made me think of our congregation, because our souls And even sometimes life-saving something that draws us here is as vital to our community as t…”
Apr 30, 2006 · government freedom elections civil rights
Faith & Civic LifeCreation & Eden5th Principle: Conscience & Democratic Process
“Delegate jeff fredericks, attempt to force prayer at high school graduation ceremony, tries to decide whether an unmarried woman should have saved pe…”
Apr 9, 2006
Loneliness & IsolationSuffering & PerseveranceFear & Anxiety
“May we see one another as brothers and sisters on the journey, Committed always to reaching back our own hands to one another, Whether or notGodd rea…”
Apr 9, 2006
Loneliness & IsolationSin & RepentancePrayer & Devotion
“Indiann sumption that freedom, reason and tolerance should be the pillars of religion or piety, Shoulders of giants upon we stand.”
Apr 2, 2006 · church god jesus gospel spirit
MarriageFriendship & BelongingUnitarian Universalist Identity
“Because truly, think the heavens and the earth to all the jobs and god herself that are placed exist like that, where people might hold one another a…”
Jan 29, 2006
Immigration & Refuge
Jan 22, 2006
Immigration & RefugeWorship & PraiseGender & Sexuality / Inclusion
Dec 11, 2005
Gender & Sexuality / InclusionJesus: Life & Teachings
Oct 2, 2005
Grief & Lament
“More than history, My companions on the journey And all of our eyes when met with the reality of our own breathing.”
Sep 4, 2005
Unitarian Universalist Identity
Oct 11, 2004
Friendship & BelongingChurch Life & MembershipLoneliness & Isolation
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