Author: Deborah

The 14th Sunday after Pentecost

August 30, 2026

This season, we’ve been answering the prompt “What brought us to Seekers and how that has informed our spiritual development” from the pulpit. I’m so thankful for the generosity of replies we’ve heard so far. Both of those questions have very quick answers for me, I thought, but today I’m going to try to go deeper on each of them.

When I first considered the first part of this question about “What brought me to Seekers”, the answer seemed simple and obvious– what brought me to Seekers was that I noticed it! I had just moved to town in 2020 and I liked the building’s exterior aesthetic, specifically that white font on the brick wall, so I started finding myself daydreaming about what might happen in here, and looked it up online, and decided to check out a service!…

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The 13th Sunday after Pentecost

August 23, 2026

Good morning, Celebration Circle has organized a wonderful program of sermons around two simple questions: What attracted you to Seekers Church? and How has being at Seekers affected your spiritual life? So far I have been amazed by the sermons from this series. I am most interested in how different your lives have been from mine, yet somehow similar. By a turn of events I got the chance to add my story and share my thoughts and experience from my life.

scripture

In our lectionary we have the famous story of baby Moses in his basket, and an interesting part of Paul’s letter to the Romans that, by my reading, describes our church very well.…

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The 12th Sunday after Pentecost

August 16, 2026

You are above us, O God, you are within. You are in all things yet contained by no thing. Teach us to seek you in all that has life that we see you as the Light of life. Teach us to search for you in our own depths that we may find you in every living soul.  Amen  (from Sounds of the Eternal: A Celtic Psalter, by John Phillip Newell)

What brought me to Seekers? To answer that question I’ll share some threads of early growth in my faith life that illustrate why I came to Seekers.…

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The 11th Sunday after Pentecost

August 9, 2026

In her sermon last Sunday, Trish gave us the questions Marjory raised at a recent Stewards meeting. Marjory said, “What I’d really like to know is what brought people to Seekers initially, and how has that contributed to their spiritual growth?”

This morning I’ll give you my answers to those questions and, as a bonus, I’ll add a few words about the gospel reading.

What brought me to Seekers initially was this building. The year was 2008; the season was Lent. I had recently started taking yoga classes at Willow Street studio, across the street from here.…

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The 10th Sunday after Pentecost

August 3, 2026

I came to Seekers for my children; I stayed for the people I found here.

This wonderful summer series of sharing of the Word that Celebration Circle has invited us into is an outgrowth of a couple of conversations this past spring. In the Stewards debrief of the May 17 Call to Evolve all community meeting, Marjory Bankson said “What I’d really like to know is what brought people to Seekers initially and how has that contributed to their spiritual growth?” The next day, Marjory offered those questions to the Spiritual Companions group and we had rich and varied sharing, hearing each unique story. …

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