Exemplary Sermons and Reflections
If you have a video or audio of your sermon, talk, devotion, or reflection that you’d like to share, along with details of what happened afterwards, let us know. Send us an email and we can arrange to share it on the site. Thank you.
Alex Shea Will, Acting Minister
Hancock Church, UCC
Lexington, MA
February 8, 2015
Mark 1:29-39
Preach-In on Climate Change Sermon
Casting Out Demons
www.hancockchurch.org
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0e782YL3A
Sermon: Matters of the Heart
by Rev. Billy Hester
Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church
Savannah, GA
In his sermon, Rev. Billy Hester addresses the issues of our role in “Climate Change”. This was part of “National Preach-in on Climate Change” Sunday in part with the “Interfaith Power & Light” … a religious response to Global Warming. (www.interfaithpowerandlight.org). This was given at Asbury Memorial United Methodist Church in Savannah, GA.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vGaAAOGn_o
Prior to Rev. Hester’s message above, broadcast meteorologist Patrick Prokop of Savannah gave his presentation on “Loving Creation … What Earth Means to me”.
httpv://youtu.be/sHE4WiXnEgI
Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon
Friends Congregational Church (UCC)
College Station, TX
February 16, 2014
www.friends-ucc.org
The following sermon was delivered by Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon on February 16, 2014 at Friends Congregational Church (UCC) in College Station, TX, as a contribution to the National Preach-in on Climate Change. The Hebrew Scripture and Gospel readings were Isaiah 5:7-10 and Matthew 5:5.
The Abundance of God’s Creation
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1WQaZuev7k&feature=youtu.be
Jamie Hinson-Rieger
Unitarian Universalist Church of Indianapolis (UUI)
Indianapolis, IN
February 16, 2014
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8OhdSkoTH0
Christine Muller, a Baha’i, shares her views on the Preach-In on Climate Change. Muller, a Baha’i who serves on the Rhode Island state board of Interfaith Power and Light (IPL), offers insights on the role of faith communities in the climate issue and opportunities presented by IPL’s 2014 Preach-In on Climate Change.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHR2ajDmsSU
Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon
Friends Congregational Church (UCC)
College Station, TX
February 16, 2014
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1WQaZuev7k
HEAT Faith in Action
Mark Sandeen
Hancock United Church of Christ (UCC)
Lexington, Massachusetts
February 9, 2014
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzXzdzzpevA
Barry DeShetler
Christ Church United Methodist
January 25, 2014
Kettering, OH
httpv://vimeo.com/85087309
Rt. Rev. Michael Curry and Dr. Carl Sigel
Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina
Raleigh, NC
Jan 29, 2014
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5oR4poaTQI
Featuring musicians Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen
This is an artistic video invitation featuring musicians Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen singing Joe Carlson’s song, “Blue”. The hearing is the continuance of the Wheelabrator Permit Appeal Hearing in which 31 appellants are asking the Dept. of Environmental Services in NH for the revocation of a 5 year permit of our local incinerator, a 2 year transition permit, and the state to help citizens continue to create a sustainable, alternative for waste management, away from incineration.
Claremont, New Hampshire
June 17th, 2013
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_z2Hjz1Dmg
Rev. Dana Allen Walsh
Hancock Church, UCC
Lexington, MA
February 9, 2014
Matthew 5:13
www.hancockchurch.org
Preach-In on Climate Change Sermon
Light on the Salt
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ0bv8tuRBo
After the sermon, people signed up to switch to renewable power and install solar panels and they sent more than 80 letters and postcards to President Obama and their Senators on Keystone XL and EPA power plant regulations.
Rev. Canon Sally Bingham, Founder and President of Interfaith Power and Light (IPL), reflects on the spiritual dimensions of the climate issue, and the Importance of Caring for Creation.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPNpF5CcKWA
