Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg Barnhouse, Minister Emeritaand Rev. Michelle LaGraveNovember 24, 2024First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Some thoughts on prayer from a person who used to be really good at praying, but now has many theories and thoughts about it. Lots of...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg Barnhouse May 29, 2022 First UU Church of Austin 4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756 www.austinuu.org In this intergenerational service we celebrate the traditional Unitarian ceremony of flower communion. We remember its origins as a vivid resistance to Nazi oppression. We bid farewell...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseMay 22, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Making commitments is complicated. Sometimes they are easy and sometimes they are hard to keep. How do we build our self-esteem by doing what we say we are going to do?...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseMay 8, 2020First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org How do you handle your rage? How do you help others with theirs? How do you deal with anger when it is at someone else, or when it is at the...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseMay 1, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Our covenant of healthy relations says we should speak to each other directly, in an attitude of curiosity and respect. How do we do this best? Chalice Lighting This...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseApril 24, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Our covenant of healthy relations calls us to “Welcome and serve by being present with one another through life’s transitions” What does it mean to be present with one another? How...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseApril 17, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Inanna, in the Babylonian faith story, goes to the underworld to visit her sister. At every level of the underworld, she is stripped of one more element of her rank and...
Listen to sermon by clicking the play button above. What is the Eighth Principle? Rev. Meg Barnhouse April 3, 2022 First UU Church of Austin 4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756 www.austinuu.org What started the sense that we needed another principle? Why now? Why antiracism? Why do we choose to focus on this issue as...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseMarch 27, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Our seventh principal affirms that we are all part of the physical world in both a physical and a spiritual way. The health of our planet and the health of other...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseMarch 20, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org A year ago, during the freeze, many of us lost our water for many days on end. Others of us who had water filled up containers to give to our neighbors...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseMarch 6, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all; Our sixth principal is broad and demanding. How in the world do we promote this, much less make this...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseFebruary 20, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org What makes a good goodbye? Our goodbye is going to be a long one. How can we talk about our gains and losses? How can we talk about the grief and...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseFebruary 13, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org A New Year’s resolution some years ago led me to the question: what if we were really loved. I have been pondering it since. So many people have that question underneath...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseFebruary 6, 2022First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Animals help us understand and feel our connection to nature, that we are rooted in the being of all beings. Chalice Lighting This is the flame we hold in...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseDecember 24, 2021First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Come join our annual Christmas Eve worship service of Lessons and Carols. We will read, from the Christian texts, the story of Rabbi Jesus’ heralded birth as well as sing Christmas...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseDecember 19, 2021First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org We celebrate our annual Christmas Pageant Chalice Lighting This is the flame we hold in our hearts as we strive for justice for everyone. This is the light we...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseDecember 12, 2021First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Perfectionism can be addictive and destructive. What is it about the holidays that brings out our sense that we should be living like the people on Instagram or in glossy magazines?...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseDecember 5, 2021First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Are there difficult people in your family? At work? Do you have any suspicions that you might be the difficult one? Here are some thoughts about what to do. ...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseNovember 28, 2021First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Today Rev Meg discusses “Right Concentration” which is the eighth part of the Eight-fold path in the Buddhist tradition. There are many ways to meditate. Chalice Lighting This is...
Listen to the sermon by clicking the play button above. Rev. Meg BarnhouseNovember 14, 2021First UU Church of Austin4700 Grover Ave., Austin, TX 78756www.austinuu.org Stacey Abrams, at the Unitarian Universalist General Assembly’s Ware Lecture, said this: “I imagine what we need and then I demand what we must have and I don’t do it alone...