Year: 2025

A Prayer for Awareness for those seeking to make war in Venezuela

Trish Nemore

Praying for Peace and Justice on December 28, 2025

Let us pray:

Holy one, you have given us the dream of peace on earth. At every turn you remind us that we are one human family, and that all living species are meant to share the earth. Yet once again we find ourselves on the brink of another unjust and unnecessary war.

I pray that you fill the minds and hearts of the warmongers with visions of death, of children maimed and bleeding, of women raped, of soldiers blown to bits, of hopelessness and destruction and misery. Help the warmongers truly feel the cost of what they propose to do.…

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A Prayer for the People of Palestine and Gaza and so many others

Trish Nemore

Praying for Peace and Justice on December 21, 2025

Let us pray.

We pray as Seekers Church for the coming of the one whose name Emanuel means “God with us.” We pray with the people of Palestine and Gaza “Ya Rabbal Salam. Lord of Peace, rain peace upon us. Lord of Peace, fill our land with peace.” Pray with me. Ya Rabbal Salam. Ya Rabbal Salam.

We pray for peace, we pray for justice, we pray that in future years we will not need to put other Christ Children within rubble in our front window, that they will no longer live in the rubble within Lebanon, Yemen, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Congo, Haiti, Myanmar, between Afghanistan and Pakistan, within Ukraine, and within Russia.…

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Christ in the Rubble by Sallie Holmes and Lucy Slater

Deborah

The Fourth Sunday in Advent

Christ of Maryknoll by Robert Lentz. Icon of Jesus behind barbed wire against golden background. Sometimes called "Jesus the Refugee"
“Christ of Maryknoll” by Robert Lentz

December 21, 2025

Sallie and Lucy brought their thoughts and insights from a recent book study of Christ in the Rubble, by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, the Palestinian pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem.

Sally began by quoting Jan Richardson, who wrote…

Blessed are you Who bear the light In unbearable times…

(Blessed are you In whom The light lives…)

She continued

I’ve always loved the Christmas holidays.  I love the tree, the lights, the music, the decorations, and the nativity scene. As I sat among those things writing this sermon, the disparities between this holiday joy and our worldly catastrophes is heart wrenching.…

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Hannah, Mary, and the Magnificat by John Hassell

Deborah

The Third Sunday in Advent

Christ of Maryknoll by Robert Lentz. Icon of Jesus behind barbed wire against golden background. Sometimes called "Jesus the Refugee"
“Christ of Maryknoll” by Robert Lentz

December 14, 2025

Good morning, Church.  Today is Gaudete Sunday.  We’re at the halfway point in the short season of Advent. Gaudete roughly translated from Latin means, “Rejoice, Our God is near.”  We lit a pink candle today, and I’m wearing some pink. Liturgically, it’s a whimsical color, signifying that we can barely restrain our joy at the coming of the Christ child, the incarnation of the divine.

Whenever, I hear or read the Magnificat, I can barely restrain my own joy. 

It is always a bit risky for a man to talk about what pregnant women might be going through, but I’m going to take that risk this morning, with your kind permission.…

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