University Church Chicago Past Sermons

Past Sermons (all in PDF format)


2010 Sermons

July 25 Harlotry, Happiness and Hope
July 18 Only One Thing
July 11 A Vision of a Plumb Line
July 4 A Querulous Healing
June 13 When the Enemy Finds You
June 6 Three Years Later
May 23 Whatever You Ask
May 9 A Vision, A Prayer, A New Life
May 2 How Long?
April 25 Other Sheep
April 18 A Charcoal Fire
April 4 Remembering His Words
March 28 Empty
March 21 Extravagant Poverty
March 14 Founding Community — Garry Sparks
March 7 Falling Towers and Fig Trees
February 28 Spiritual But Not Religious
February 7 Promises Prayers and Possibilities
January 31 Before and Now
January 24 Going Home
January 17 Three Movement Saints
January 10 To the Wind
January 3 A Way of Seeing and Understanding

2009 Sermons

December 27 A Way to Begin
December 20 Leaping in the Womb
December 13 What Then Shall We Do?
December 6 Pure and Blameless
November 29 In Those Days
November 22 Do Not Worry
November 15 A Drunken Prayer
November 8 The Best Seats
November 1 It is Done
October 18 Receiving the Good and the Bad
October 11 Out of the Whirlwind
October 4 Receiving the Good and the Bad
September 27 A Scheming Woman
September 13 The Turning Point
September 6 Losing the Argument
August 30 The Gospel According to Kierkegaard
August 23 To whom we can go?
August 16 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
August 9 Under the Broom Tree
August 2 Bread of Heaven
July 26 Counting on Pot Luck — Ina Houck
July 19 Remnant and the Branch
July 12 Success or Significance
June 28 Out of the Depths
June 7 The Divine Touch
May 31 When Everything is Revealed
May 24 What the Wicked Are Like
May 17 Commandments and Choices
May 10 Angels and Eunuchs
May 3 Words Too Familiar
April 26 The Resurrection of Community — Beth Dickerson, guest preacher
April 12 Seized by Amazement
April 5 When Love Comes to Town
March 22 Grace—Cheap and Costly
March 15 Wise Fools
March 8 Covenant and Commitment
March 1 Lost
February 8 Valdosta
February 1 A Weak Liberty
January 25 When God's Mind Is Changed
January 18          The Third Time
January 11          When the Spirit Says
January 4          The Meanest Man in the World

2008 Sermons

June 1 The Gift of Grace
June 8 Where You Pitch Your Tent
June 15 Instructions for the Journey
June 22 The Green-eyed Monster
June 29 The Knight of Infinite Resignation
July 6 Thoroughly Confused
July 13 The Red Stuff
July 20 A Place Called Awesome
July 27 God's Discards
August 3 Forever Limping
August 10 Faith and Doubt
August 17 Losing the Argument
August 24 The Turning Point
August 31 Friends, Strangers, and Enemies
September 7    A Community of Forgiveness
September 21    The Cattle of Nínive —Garry Sparks
September 28    Fear and Trembling
October 5 Summing Up Everything
October 12 Whatever ...
October 19 Seeing the Face of God
October 26 Endings and Beginnings
November 2 Among the Blest
November 9 Choices that Must Be Made
November 16 Hiding Saving and Spending
November 30 The Clay and the Potter
December 7 Locusts and Wild Honey
December 14 Confessing Identity
December 21 An Angel's Voice
December 24 Someone Ponders, Someone Prays

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