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University UMC Sermons
by ATX UUMC
Weekly sermons from University United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas.
Episodes
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We Are Becoming Generous Disciples
“We are not hungry for what we're not getting, but for what we're not giving.” – Ann Lamott
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We Are Becoming… Good Neighbors
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say ‘It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” – Fred Rogers A Visitor by Hyunjong Jung When someone comes to...
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We Are Becoming…Citizens of the World
“I look upon all the world as my parish.” – John Wesley Prayer of St. Francis Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is...
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Lead Courageously
“The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections.” – Vision Statement of The UMC
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Si Tuvieras Fe
"There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story." – Benedictine Sister Mary Lou Kownacki
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Love Boldly
“The United Methodist Church forms disciples of Jesus Christ, who, empowered by the Holy Spirit, love boldly, serve joyfully, and lead courageously in local communities and worldwide connections. This vision statement complements the Church’s longstanding mission statement, inspired by Matthew...
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All Are Welcome
“Today is the day God cries with the masses of starving people, despises growing disparity between rich and poor, demands justice for workers in the marketplace. And so shall we.” – from The Social Creed of The UMC
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No Place Like Home
Maybe home is not a place. Maybe it’s the version of yourself that finally feels safe, calm, and free. – Cia in “A Life In Between Zones” “Gather us in, and hold us forever; gather us in, and make us your own; gather us in, all peoples together, fire of love in our flesh and our bone.” – from the...
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It’s Like Being Found While Finding
This Sunday’s Gospel reading is Jesus’ parables of the Treasure Hidden in a Field and the Pearl of Great Value. In his sermon, “It’s Like Being Found While Finding,” Pastor Earl explores Jesus’ way of describing the kingdom of heaven and how he invites us to approach these two brief parables from...
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Start Small
“Some kids are smarter than you, some kids have cooler clothes than you, some kids are better at sports than you. It doesn’t matter. You have your own thing too. Be the kid who can get along. Be the kid who is generous. Be the kid who is happy for other people. Be the kid who does the right…
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A Story Bigger Than Me
“As we celebrate 70 years of women’s ordination, we give thanks for the faithful witness of those who have gone before and for the many women whose ministries continue to enrich and transform The United Methodist Church today. With gratitude for the past and hope for the future, may we continue…
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Sow the Seeds Anyway
“When he was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him about the parables. He told them, ‘The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables.’” – Mark 4:10-11
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I’ve Been Meaning to Ask…Where Do We Go From Here?
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I’ve Been Meaning to Ask…Where Does It Hurt?
In the scripture lesson, Biblical character Hannah is honest with God about her broken-heartedness in wanting to have a child. We have resources for those who have experienced, or are experiencing, infertility, miscarriage and child loss available on our website at:...
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I’ve Been Meaning to Ask…Where Are You From?
“In this time of great reflection on two hundred fifty years, We remember, as a nation, times we’ve prospered, times of tears. “We shall be,” a preacher told us, “as a city on a hill”— not to praise us but to warn us: We’ve a duty to fulfill.” – “In this Time of Great Reflection” by Rev. Dr....
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Come Sit With Me
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” so the saying goes. Psychologists tell us that a common enemy can create a very fast friendship. But they also tell us that relationships built on such things are shallow, fragile, and stand on a shaky foundation of context-dependent reactivity. On the other...
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Pride is for Everyone
“I am a person of faith and a gay man. Pride is a celebration and commitment to justice I make every day.” — Rev. Dr. Alvaran, United Methodist Pastor in California
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How Can We Name A Love?
How can we name a Love That wakens heart and mind Indwelling all we know Or think or do Or seek or find Within our daily world In every human face Love's echoes sound And God is found Hid in the commonplace — from the hymn “How Can We Name a Love?”
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Breathing Together
“May your tongue tingle with the good news. May your heart open to all the people of the street. And, when you are ben over by sorrow, may you find the Spirit’s feather on the ground waiting there to give you hope.” — A Pentecost Benediction by Maren Tirabassi
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Your People Will Be My People
In preparing for this Sunday, Dr. Ham writes, “I will be connecting Ruth and Naomi’s story with my own experience of moving across different countries, cultures, and communities, and slowly learning what it means to find my people. I will reflect on the sacred gift of being known without having…
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When Our Eyes Were Opened
It’s interesting that walking through the scriptures made their hearts burn but it was participation in a meal that opened their eyes to see the Risen One in their midst. I can’t help but think that’s the same invitation to us too. May you SEE your daily participation as a holy sacrament. – Scott...
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Breakfast with Jesus
“We don’t always get a breakfast on the beach with the Giver of Existence, but we sometimes get the miracle of a change of perspective that leads us to question who we are going to be now. May you SEE that you are invited to be so much more than you have allowed yourself to be.” – Scott Erickson
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Wounded Healers
“Doubt will be your constant companion on this journey. Doubt will be the consistent wall of understanding that you bump up against as you pursue the Endless Mystery. Doubt is the doorway to each new way of knowing, each new perspective. Doubt is the feeling of your heart expanding for a larger...
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Alleluia Anyway
“Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.” – Anne Lamott Death cannot stop the good news. It is alive, unbound, and wild in the world. Like the mustard seed, it grows without limit. Like water turned into wine, it surprises us with joy. Like...
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The Good News Inspires us to Act
“Revolutionary and subversive acts do not have to be grandiose or immediately altering. They can be small, seen but immediately unseen, loud and expected but bewilderingly unconventional. In that way, the powers that be cannot control, stop, or even anticipate the next revolutionary act. . . . So...
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The Good News is Rooted in Justice, Mercy and Faithfulness
“Our love and mercy are stronger than the hate that ignores the call to love neighbor and stranger…What we can do now is find our people; wrap our arms around the most vulnerable of us; have honest conversations; lean into mutual aid and kindness; and curate moments of joy and fierce love.” —…
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The Good News is Protection & Care for the Vulnerable
“You shall not deprive a resident alien or an orphan of justice; you shall not take a widow’s garment in pledge. Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.” — Deuteronomy 24:17-18
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The Good News Is: Together, the Impossible is Possible
Jesus models a way to be in community by coming together and sharing what we have, dispelling perceived impossibilities. The good news empowers us to believe in the miracles that can become possible through the power of community. — A Sanctified Art
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The Good News is Great Love for God & Neighbor
“Whenever I wash the world’s feet, my hands immediately stop shaking.” - from a poem by John Roedel
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We Begin with Good News
When it comes time to write my obituary for the local paper, please do not start with my résumé. Do not start with my career or my worldly accomplishments (however small they may be). Do not take up space writing about my alma mater or outlining the entire family tree (we know who we are).…
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A View from the Mountaintop
“Christ leads us down the mountain and into the desert, because the true transfiguration, the true shining forth of God in all God’s glory happens when we follow him there together.” ― Reverend Michael D. Kinman
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It’s Your Turn
“When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of people we are.” ― César Chávez
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Love Still Wins
This Sunday we celebrate UUMC’s anniversary of affiliation with Reconciling Ministries Networks. This service celebrates the strides that have been made in our faith communities towards full inclusion of queer and trans folks, and also place before us our ongoing work as queer and trans people of...
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Hidden Figures
“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the eternal immigrant from God’s kingdom among us, who speaks all languages, lives in all countries, and reunites all races.” – Jose Luis Casal “The Immigrants Creed” from Fiesta Cristiana, a United Methodist resource for hispanic worship.
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A Dream Deferred
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." – Martin Luther King, Jr. “Letter from Birmingham, Alabama jail,” April 16, 1963 The Dream…
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Beloved is Where We Begin
Beloved is Where You Begin by Jan Richardson If you would enter Into the wilderness, Do not begin Without a blessing. Do not leave Without hearing Who you are: Beloved, Named by the One Who has traveled this path Before you. Do not go Without letting it echo In your ears, And if you find it is…
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The Stars Within Us
“Epiphany is a day in Chrisitan traditions when we remember the Magi’s journey, following a star from nations around the world to meet Christ as an infant. Later, when King Herod attempts to manipulate them to reveal the location of the child he wants to kill, they, in sacred disobedience, ignore...
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Songs of the Season
We light the candle of JOY for the last Sunday of Advent! Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “Songs of the Season” and we’ll continue our theme Ancestral Knowledge with a look at the words spoken by Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist from Luke 1:67-79. Of all the Biblical characters...
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Chosen Family
Join us as we celebrate the 2nd Sunday in Advent. Pastor Earl preaches. His sermon, entitled “Chosen Family,” uses Matthew 1:18-25 as its scripture.
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A Family Tree for All of Us
Our Sermon Series for Advent this year is “Ancestral Knowledge.” Throughout the Advent and Christmas season, we recall the stories and traditions handed down through the generations that shape who we are. We will hear lessons about some of the less familiar characters in the Advent story…
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Long-Haul Thankfulness
This Sunday Megan Otto shares a message about being thankful in the midst of all the things happening in the world. Paul tells us to rejoice and not be anxious about anything but that’s easier said than done.
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A Matthew 25 Church!
We are excited to welcome Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey as our guest preacher this Sunday. Her sermon title is “A Matthew 25 Church!” and the scripture reading comes from Matthew 25:34-40. In this passage Jesus reminds the disciples, “I was hungry and you gave me food” and we look forward to the...
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Living the Dream
Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “Living the Dream” and she will be sharing highlights from the last year made possible because of UUMC’s generosity.
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Star Gazing
This Sunday we continue our Sermon Series for Stewardship Season “Dare to Dream.” The scripture reading is Genesis 15:1-6 and Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “Star Gazing.”
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A Vision and Dream for All Ages
As we continue Stewardship Season with our theme “Dare to Dream!” Pastor Teresa will be preaching and the sermon text is the story of Pentecost from Acts 2:14-21.
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When Little Faith is Enough
The sermon text is Matthew 8:23-27 of Jesus calming the storm and Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “When Little Faith is Enough.” This Sunday begins our Stewardship/Commitment to Giving season and our theme this year is “Dare To Dream” - an invitation and challenge to strengthen our...
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Better Together
We conclude our sermon series “Created for Community.” The sermon text is Romans 12:1-8 and Pastor Teresa’s sermon is “Better Together.”
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Bird of One Spirit Flock Together
We continue our sermon series, Created for Community. Pastor Earl’s message, “Birds of One Spirit Flock Together,” will reflect on Paul’s famous metaphor of the body and its members (1 Corinthians 12:12–26), exploring what it means to be a Christian community and what makes it special in today’s...
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This is My Thing!
Pastor Teresa’s sermon title “This is My Thing!” is inspired by a program by the same name on KUT News where community members share the hobbies and talents that bring them joy. The sermon text is the Parable of the Talents from Matthew 25:14-30 and will be shared in a creative way by Melissa...
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A Place at the Table
Join us for worship as we begin our September Sermon Series “Created for Community.” The scripture lesson is Acts 2:42-47 and Pastor Teresa’s sermon is entitled “A Place at the Table.”
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