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Spirit–centered Progressives?

By Bruce G. Epperly

Pentecost Sunday

Acts 2:1-21
Romans 8:22-27
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Imagine yourself in those first weeks following the resurrection of Jesus, utterly overwhelmed by the events of Holy Week, the Empty Tomb and the Wounded-Risen Teacher and Savior, and the..

Serving God and Mammon

By John B. Cobb, Jr.

Luke story of the rich, young ruler

It has been very risky for a long time now to make statements about what Jesus said. Accordingly, I won’t claim that the explicit assertion that we cannot serve both God and Mammon came from him. But unless the synoptic wri..

Scales Fell From His Eyes

By John B. Cobb, Jr.

Acts 9:1-19

The idea that scales sometimes fall from our eyes has taken hold in Christendom. It describes figuratively an experience that many have had.

In this whole passage there is a double change. On the road to Damascus, in the figurative sense, we mi..

Resurrection People

By Mary Kay Sauter

Date Delivered: April 12, 1998

Isaiah 65

Last week the woman took her children to a restaurant. Her 6-year-old son asked if he could say grace. As they bowed their heads, he said, “God is good, God is great. Thank you for the food, and I would thank you mo..

Prayer

By John B. Cobb, Jr.

O Thou, who art both Father and Mother of us all, we thank you for the beauty and love with which we are surrounded here. We thank you that we can live with others who share our gratitude to you and have concern one for another. We thank you that as the years pa..

Peace in a Nanosecond

By Sharon R. Graff

Date Delivered: September 19, 2004

Location: Redlands United Church of Christ

Amos 8:4-7
1 Timothy 2:1-7
Luke 16:1-13

As we begin, I invite you to hear again these words from Luke: “And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had ac..

On Becoming a Mystical Progressive

By Bruce G. Epperly

Date Delivered: August 13, 2006

Location: Unitarian Universalist Community of Lancaster

Genesis 28:10-17
Exodus 3:1-5
John 1:1-5, 9

Earth’s crammed with heaven
and every common bush
afire with God;
And only he who sees,
takes off his shoes –
..

New Life

By Mary Kay Sauter

Date Delivered: March 31, 2003

Easter Sunday

Cecil B. DeMille, a renowned playwright and producer of epic films such as the Ten Commandments, was asked to write a play about immortality. He went to his cottage in the Maine woods and began to think about th..