June 15, 2008 - "More Than Tea And Cookies"

May 25, 2008 - "Do Not Worry"

May 4, 2008 - "God Believes in Us"

April 27, 2008 - "Telling the Story"

April 20, 2008 - "Second Chances"

April 13, 2008 - "The Good News About Sheep"

April 6, 2008 - "From There to Here"

March 23, 2008 - by the Rev. Ryan Lambert - not available

March 16, 2008 - "The Truth of Hosannas"

March 2, 2008 - by the Rev. Ryan Lambert - not available

February 24, 2008 - by the Rev. Ryan Lambert - not available

February 17, 2008 - "Living the Promise"

February 10, 2008 - "If"

February 3, 2008 - "The Things We Don't Know"

January 27, 2008 - "Leaving The Past Behind"

January 20, 2008 - "What Are You Looking For?"

January 13, 2008 - "Of Water, Doves, and Other Sacramental Things"

January 6, 2008 - "Just A Few More Gifts"

December 30, 2007 - "A Look at Significant Religious Events of 2007"

December 9, 2007 - "A Word To The Brood"

December 2, 2007 - "Awaiting the Unexpected"

November 25, 2007 - This Sunday was a conversational "sermon" among parishioners, who divided into small groups for this purpose. No "traditional sermon" is available for this Sunday.

November 18, 2007 - "My Thanksgiving Table"

November 11, 2007 - The sermon from November 11th was provided by students from United Campus Ministry at Westminster House on the Oregon State University campus. No text is available.

October 28, 2007 - The Sanctuary Choir performed the Fauré Requiem in observance of All Saints Sunday. No sermon available.

October 21, 2007 - "A Limp and a Blessing"

October 14, 2007 - "No More Whining"

October 7, 2007 - Guest preacher: Farley Maxwell, speaking about Global Mission opportunities within the United Church of Christ and specifically his experience in Nepal. No sermon text available.

September 30, 2007 - "Placing Our Hope In A Jar"

September 23, 2007 - "Struggle Or Gift?"

September 16, 2007 - "On Going Astray And Being Found"

September 9, 2007 - "Choosing Life"

September 2, 2007 - Ecumenical Worship in Central Park with First Presbyterian, First Christian (Disciples of Christ), First United Methodist, and Grace Lutheran (ELCA) churches. No sermon available.

August 26, 2007 - Question were submitted to the Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger and answered on an impromptu basis; no sermon text available.

August 19, 2007 - "A Division of Our House"

August 12, 2007 - "Living Without Fear"

July 22, 2007 - "A Letter to Martha "

July 15, 2007 - "They Asked, 'Who Is My Neighbor?'"

July 8, 2007 - "Caring For The Critters"

July 1, 2007 - "Infected By Hope"

June 24, 2007 - Consisted of written comments from the UCC 50th anniversary book, 'Let It Shine.' - No sermon available.

June 17, 2007 - "It's A Messy World Out There"

June 10, 2007 - "A Continuous History Of Grace"

June 3, 2007 - Reflections on graduating seniors by members of the congregation - no sermon available.

May 27, 2007 - "Where The Past Meets The Future"

May 20, 2007 - Statements from members of this year's Confirmation class. No sermon available.

May 13, 2007 - "Do You Want To Be Healed?"

May 5, 2007 - "Pushing the Boundaries"

April 29, 2007 - "A Word to the Flock"

April 22, 2007 - "Tending Sheep In Dangerous Times"

April 15, 2007 - "Life After Jesus"

April 8, 2007 - "Beyond The Empty Tomb"

April 6, 2007 - Good Friday Meditations: Stations of the Cross

April 1, 2007 - Looking Beyond Our Expectations

March 25, 2007 - "Is That Really In The Bible?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

March 18, 2007 - "Step 1: Know You're Lost" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

March 11, 2007 - "Found In Translation" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

March 4, 2007 - "Promises, Promises" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

February 25, 2007 - Guest preacher, Kate Stewart. No sermon available.

February 18, 2007 - "Holding On And Letting Go" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

February 11, 2007 - "A Visit From the Guilty Fairy" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

February 4, 2007 - Scout Sunday - No Sermon Available

January 21, 2007: "This I Believe..." - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

January 14, 2007: "Messiah In Training" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

January 7, 2007: "Baptized For What?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

December 31, 2006: "Leaving By Another Road" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

December 10, 2006: "Brooding Over Advent" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

December 3, 2006: "Hurry Up and Wait" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

November 26, 2006: "Portrait of a King" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

November 19, 2006: "Almost Grownups" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

November 5, 2006: "Saints I Have Known" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 29, 2006 - Reformation Sunday: "That They May All Be One" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 22, 2006: "Thank God for Job" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 15, 2006: "Hide and Seek" - Kate Stewart, Guest Preacher

October 8, 2006: "A Conversation With Many Voices" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 1, 2006 - World Communion Sunday: "When Life Is Faith" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

September 24, 2006: "Standing On Our Heads With Jesus" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

September 17, 2006: "The Taming of Our Speech" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

September 10, 2006: "Continuing Education" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

August 27, 2006: "Armed and Dangerous" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

August 20, 2006: "Dine In Or Take Out?" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

August 13, 2006: "Parents and Children" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

August 6, 2006: "Wonder Bread" - The Rev. Peggy Tooker (Guest Preacher)

July 30, 2006: "The World Turned Upside Down" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

July 23, 2006: "The Problem With Cathedrals" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

July 16, 2006 - Integrity of Creation Sunday: "Lovers and Defenders of Creation" - Readings

July 9, 2006: "Embracing The Imperfect" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

July 2, 2006: "A Theology of Interruption" - The Rev. Lon Rycraft

June 25, 2006: "Courageous Faith: Is It In Us?" - The Rev. Caroline Zaworski

June 18, 2006: "A Cinderella Story" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

June 11, 2006 - Graduation Recognition Sunday: Comments about each graduate by someone in the congregation who knows that graduate well. No sermon is available.

June 4, 2006: "The Church On Fire" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

May 28, 2006: "Finding Our Own Way" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

May 21, 2006: "Can We Be Friends?" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

May 14, 2006: "Fraudulent Christians" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger
 

May 7, 2006: "A Word To The Sheep" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

April 30, 2006: "The Past Is Prologue" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

April 23, 2006: "Remembering William Sloane Coffin" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

Easter Sunday – April 16, 2006: "Thank God for Peter" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

Palm Sunday - April 9, 2006: "On the Cloaks of Many" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

March 26, 2006: "Snake-Bitten" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

March 19, 2006: "Is That All God Wants?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

March 12, 2006: "The Bad News About Discipleship" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

March 5, 2006: "Solitary Confinement" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

February 26, 2006: "What’s Next?" - Seminary Student Kate Stewart

February 19, 2006: "Pardon The Interruption" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

February 12, 2006: "What Do We Choose?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

February 5, 2006: Scout Sunday. Members of Boy Scout Troop #1 and Girl Scout Troop #142, both sponsored by our church, delivered kind words of gratitude to the church and reflected on their Scouting experiences. No sermon is available.

January 29, 2006: "Whose Are the Unclean Spirits?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger - Out of respect for persons whose first names are mentioned in this sermon about mental illness, it will not be published on the website.

January 22, 2006: "How Shall We Respond?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

January 15, 2006: "Come and See" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

January 8, 2006: "Why Baptism?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

January 1, 2006: "Still Going..." - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

December 25, 2005: The Christmas Day service consisted of reflections from Ann Weems' book, "Kneeling in Bethlehem"

December 18, 2005: "Pondering Mary" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

December 11, 2005: "The Other Annunciation" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

November 27, 2005: "What Are We Waiting For?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

November 20, 2005: "Extravagant Thanksgiving" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

November 13, 2005: "Risking It All" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

November 6, 2005 - Laity Sunday: "Reflections On Stewardship" - Norm Vedaa and Sue Richmond

October 30, 2005: "Saints I Have Known" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

October 23, 2005: "The Greatest Commandment" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 16, 2005: "From Out the Cleft of the Rock" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 9, 2005: "Snapshots from the Early Church" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

October 2, 2005: "Hunger Pains" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

September 25, 2005: "Still Grumbling After All These Years" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

September 18, 2005: "Gold Watch Sinners" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

September 11, 2005: "Choosing The End Of The Story" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

September 4, 2005 - Annual Ecumenical Labor Day Park Service: First Presbyterian, First Christian (Disciples of Christ), First United Methodist, First Congregational UCC, and St. Mary's Catholic churches participating. No sermon available.

August 28, 2005: "Ashes or Embers" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

August 21, 2005: "Ordinary Heroes" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

August 14, 2005: "Some Things Never Change" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

August 7, 2005: "Come for the Water" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

July 31, 2005: "Progressive Miracles" - The Rev. Lon Rycraft, Guest Preacher

July 24, 2005: "Bigger Than We Think" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

July 17, 2005: "Patience" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

July 3, 2005: "An Easy Burden?" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

June 26, 2005: "Pondering The Unthinkable" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

June 19, 2005: "Between Two Brothers" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

June 12, 2005 - Graduation Sunday: Persons, previously selected by each graduate, spoke to and about each youth. No sermon is available.

June 5, 2005 - Recognition of Christian Educators: "Surely God Is In This Place, And I Did Not Know It" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger

May 29, 2005: "Will Build To Suit" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

May 22, 2005: "Co-Missioned" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

May 15, 2005 - Confirmation Sunday: Confirmands read their own "Faith Statements." No sermon is available.

May 8, 2005: "Together" - The Rev. Gregory Turner, Guest Preacher

May 1, 2005: "Reaching For God" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

April 17, 2005 - Integrity of Creation Sunday: "The Endangered Iweeus" - Becky Flitcroft and Jeff Snyder

April 10, 2005: "The Rehabilitation of Peter" - The Rev. Harold Hunter

April 3, 2005: "What About Saturday?" - Dramatic play written by Beth Riley and her Lenten Class. The play was performed by congregation members of all ages. God was reflected as all-inclusive, using six different members of the congregation as God's voice.

Easter - March 27, 2005: "The Danger of Holding On" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

March 20, 2005: "Who Is This?" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

March 13, 2005: "Signs Along The Route" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

March 6, 2005: "A Man of Authority" - The Rev. Harold Hunter

February 27, 2005: "Quenching Our Thirst" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

February 20, 2005: "Blown Open" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

February 13, 2005 - "Lead Us Not Into Temptation?" - The Rev. Harold Hunter

January 30, 2005 - "God Is Still Speaking" - Michael Bendixen

January 16, 2005 - Martin Luther King, Jr., Sunday: "How Long To Sing This Song?" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

January 9, 2005: "Beloved Still" - The Rev. Ryan Lambert

January 2, 2005: "In The Beginning" - The Rev. Elizabeth Oettinger