Our Sermons
2024 Sermon Recordings
2023 Sermon Recordings
This lay-led service centers around the gifts of the First Parish of Norwell community.
Our Easter Sunday service honors new life, rebirth, and new beginnings – as told through the Easter story, the story of Ostara and the Passover story.
This service, led by guest minister Rev. Erica Baron, centers on the Contract to Call process our congregation is engaged in now.
Members of the FPN Alliance share testimonies of gratitude for the importance of belonging and sharing through social gatherings, educational sessions and efforts to support the most vulnerable in our community.
Sociologist Brene Brown states through her research that being vulnerable is actually a signal of strength, even bravery. Rev. Susan explores this reality and why our fear sometimes holds us back from showing our true spirit.
Rev. Susan discusses facing fear in her first sermon of the month.
Chaplain Ylisse Bess (she/they) discusses kintsugi and having reverence for our pain, and struggle, as a practice of love for ourselves and a model of love for others.
Rev. Susan discusses how shared reverence of the holy and sacred in our world offers us a pathway for shared love of self and community.
Rev. Susan will center her reflection on how love motivates us to act interpersonally, in community and with our planet.
Rev. Susan will center her reflection on how love motivates us to act interpersonally, in community and with our planet.
Another expression of fascism is an attack on public education and institutions of higher learning. We explore our UU values around a search for truth and meaning and the dangerousness inherent in shutting down critical thinking.
An exploration of the ministry of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his philosophy and approach rooted in non-violence.
Exploring the ways that MLK invited people into an ethic of love - and it wasn't just about feeling or embodying love - but rather, putting love into action.
Rev. Susan reflects on the process of discernment as it relates to the “contract to call” process our congregation is invited to engage in this year.