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Here you will find sermons delivered at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver. Unless otherwise noted the sermons are from our parish minister, Rev. Dr. Steven Epperson.

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Excerpt from a recent sermon 
Thanksgiving 2011: Celebrating Our Seniors/Our Elders
Remarks by Rev. Steven Epperson
October 9, 2011
© 2011 Unitarian Church of Vancouver

Rob Dainow came into my office, I think it was two years ago, and told me he thought it would be a good idea, and timely too, for us to recognize and celebrate the senior members of our congregation. Rob, some things take time to gestate. But I never forgot this good idea of yours, and so today, taking a cue from Hillel, the great first century rabbi, who said: “If not now, when?”—the time has come to single out and celebrate the elder and veteran members and adherents of our congregation.

In looking over our UCV membership, I am deeply impressed not only with the size of our senior cohort; more important, I am sincerely impressed and deeply thankful for the richness of their lives—your lives—and for the role our senior members have played at UCV, in one way or many ways, down through the years. You know very well that without your service and devotion to this congregation, we would not be here; nor would we be as strong and visionary a religious community as we enter into our 102nd anniversary year. And for this I, and all of us here, are deeply grateful to you.

About a month ago, we did our best to compile a list of our members and adherents fast approaching, in the midst of and beyond their eighties. When that list arrived at my desk, I just about fell off my chair, though I shouldn’t have been surprised: there were 88 names listed there; and if the Talmud is right, as I quoted from it a couple of weeks ago—if one person, one soul, is comparable to an entire world, our senior members constitute a galaxy of planets—each unique, priceless—whole worlds of memory, experience, of joys and sorrows, vision and achievement.

Look around this room with me for a moment; consider what I have just said. How fortunate we are that the universe has sown out into this congregation the rich fullness of the life of our ...
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Printer-friendly sermons 2012 
[pdf] Unusual Beliefs and Mental Well-Being 22 Jan 12.pdf
[pdf] What's So Great About Happiness 15 Jan 12.pdf
[pdf] What is Wisdom_ Who is Wise_ 8 Jan 12.pdf
Listen to sermons & special service 2012 
[sound] Unusual Beliefs_ - 22 Jan 12.mp3
[sound] What is Wisdom_ - 8 Jan 12.mp3
Printer-friendly sermons 2011 
[pdf] 2011 12 24 Christmas Eve--Thoughts on Walking.pdf
[pdf] 2011 12 11 Death Be Not Proud Part II.pdf
[pdf] 2011 12 04 Death Be Not Proud Part I.pdf
[pdf] 2011 10 30 Encountering our Ancestors VII.pdf
[pdf] 2011 10 09 Thanksgiving.pdf
[pdf] 2011 11 27 Advent Sunday 2011.pdf
[pdf] 2011 09 25 Barbarians.pdf
[pdf] 2011 09 18 Two Young Heroes.pdf
[pdf] 2011 08 07 A Tale of Two Gospels.pdf
Fritz Muntean
[pdf] 2011 07 31 The Secret of Long-Term Happiness.pdf
Dwight Ivany
[img] 2011 07 31 The Secret of Long-Term Happiness {mindmap}.jpg
....Mindmap from Dwight Ivany's Service
[pdf] 2011 07 24 Building Your Own Theology.pdf
[pdf] 2011 05 15 Our Mental Health Crisis.pdf
[pdf] 2011 05 08 Mother's Day 2011 - On Being a Parent.pdf
[pdf] 2011 05 01 Earth Day 2011 - May 0ur Garden Grow.pdf
[pdf] 2011 03 20 A History of Prayer.pdf
[pdf] 2011 02 06 Come Up Higher - The Upland Path.pdf
Phillip Hewett
[pdf] 2011 01 30 Saint Simon and UU Social Responsibility.pdf
[pdf] 2011 01 16 Blue Sunday.pdf
[pdf] 2011 01 02 Epiphany Sunday.pdf
[pdf] 2011 12 11 Death Be Not Proud Part II.pdf
Listen to sermons and special services 2011 
[sound] Dec 11 2011 - Death Be Not Proud pt 2.mp3
[sound] Dec 4 2011 - Death Be Not Proud pt 1.mp3
[sound] Nov 27 2011 - Teenagers.mp3
[sound] Nov 20 2011 - Arthur Berman - Angles, Miracles and Me.mp3
[sound] Nov 6 2011 - Frank Tester - An Arctic Anthology.mp3
[sound] Oct 9 2011 - Thanksgiving, Our Elders.mp3
[sound] Sep 4 2011 - Wendy McNiven - Neighbours.mp3
[sound] May 29 11 A Religion for Canada.mp3
[sound] Jun 12 11 This Could Be the Place.mp3
Reverend Joseph M. Cherry
[sound] May 22 11 Mussar Tradition(1).mp3
Alan Morinis
[sound] May 15 11 Special Address-Robert Whitaker - Anatomy of an Epidemic.mp3
[sound] May 08 11 - Mother's Day 2011 - On Being a Parent.mp3
[sound] May 01 11 - Earth Day 2011 - May Our Garden Grow.mp3
[sound] April 17 2011 - What We Don't (But Should) Know about Jesus.mp3
[sound] April 10 2011 - The Power of Commitment and Renewal.mp3
[sound] Mar 20 11 - A History of Prayer.mp3
[sound] Feb 27 11 - Where Is Your Wonder.mp3
Joe Cherry
[sound] Feb 20 11 - Solving Homelessness.mp3
Hon. Libby Davies, MP
[sound] Feb 13 11 - Do Religions Let Governments off the Hook.mp3
[sound] Feb 06 11 - Come Up Higher.mp3
Rev. Dr. Phillip Hewett
[sound] Jan 30 11 - The Roots of Unitarian Social Responsibility.mp3
[sound] Jan 16 11 - Sweet Forgiveness - Blue Sunday IV.mp3
[sound] Jan 09 11 - The Moral Life of Animation.mp3

 

 

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