Sermons

The 21st Sunday after Pentecost

October 18, 2026

50 years ago today, on the third Sunday of October in 1976, Seekers Church was born. There were 19 core members who had been shaped by their earlier commitment as members of Church of the Saviour. They were attracted to Seekers rather than to one of the other five communities being birthed that same day, which was also the 30^th birthday of Church of the Saviour.

The lectionary text for today seems singularly appropriate: Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and render unto God what belongs to God. Looking at a Roman coin with the Emperor’s visage on it, Jesus seemed to be saying “Pay your taxes for what the state provides, and give your energy for life and love to God’s realm here and now.”…

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The 20th Sunday after Pentecost

October 11, 2026

“Before I start, I want to say that I am feeling hopeful this morning – there are some things that came up at work this week. I used to feel afraid, always thinking that “conflict with others” was the big bad boogeyman, mostly because of how I grew up and how we handled conflict: fighting, withdrawing, and isolating. And now, through and because of God, I have options, a way forward, a better way.”

Good morning, Seekers. I am so happy to be sharing this morning, so I am going to jump right in.…

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The 19th Sunday after Pentecost

October 4, 2026

We are humans and along with other creatures of God’s creation – we are always learning.  We witness this most greatly in the early years of children, as they learn at an astonishing rate how to move their bodies, how to talk, how to share, and how to experience the world around them. Even as we grow older, we still have opportunities for learning and growing as we adjust to other changing conditions – of our bodies, of our capacities or opportunities for new and deeper awareness or creative expression. We can choose to be life-long learners. …

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The 18th Sunday after Pentecost

September 27, 2026

Good morning

I’m here to talk about my approach to recommitment, as we are in the season of recommitment here at Seekers Church.  But before going there, I have been invited to respond to the earlier questions of what brought me to Seekers and how that has impacted my spiritual life.  Those questions have been the subject of a series of recent sermons and do relate to recommitment. 

Coming to Seekers

Brenda and I finished law school in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1983, and I clerked for a federal judge there for two years. …

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The 17th Sunday after Pentecost

September 20, 2026

At Seekers, we have entered Recommitment Season. This is the period of time leading up to Recommitment Sunday (the third Sunday in October) during which members of Seekers are invited to examine their commitment to Seekers and decide whether they are called to recommit to Seekers for another year. Today I want to talk about what commitment means at Seekers Church and the role mission groups play in commitment.

The first thing I did when I started preparing this sermon was to look back at Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Call to Commitment. She wrote this book in 1963 as a member of the Church of the Saviour, from which Seekers evolved.…

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