Seekers recognizes that any member of the community may be called upon by God to give us the Word, and thus we have an open pulpit with a different preacher each week. Sermons preached at Seekers, as well as sermons preached by Seekers at other churches or events, are posted here, beginning with the most recent.
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Dreaming About Recommitment
John Morris
October 13, 2024
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Henry James, commenting on writing fiction, warned, “Tell a dream, lose a reader.” This is good advice for talking about dreams too: You really shouldn’t assume other people will find your dreams as fascinating and pregnant with meaning as you do.
Nevertheless, I’m going to start this sermon with the unpromising topic sentence:
Let me tell you about a dream I had a few nights ago.
Justice and Solidarity
Deborah Sokolove
October 6, 2024
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
It is the season of Recommitment, but we have not been talking about that much. Last week, Paul began his brief sermon with a reminder that our commitment statements as Seekers include a promise to “work for the ending of all war, public and private.” Today, I want to focus on another of our promises.
“Introduction to the Seekers Community Conversation”
September 29, 2024
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
This is the fourth Sunday of the Seekers recommitment season, a time when we intentionally re-explore our commitment to Christ and to Seekers Church. This morning and every Sunday, as an integral part of our worship, we recommitted ourselves to “work to end all war, violence and discord.” Today, we have a unique opportunity to further explore that commitment. We have an opportunity to ask ourselves: Do we take that commitment to heart? Do we take it seriously? Are we really “committed” to it? And if so, how do we live out that commitment in our individual and corporate lives?
“A Service in the Style of Taizé for Recommitment 2024”
September 22, 2024
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
From time to time Seekers Church takes time out from its regular preaching schedule for a service of chant, prayer and reflection modeled on the worship of the Taizé Community in France. This Sunday was one such time. Repeating the chants together until they die away into the silence provides rest for our world-weary spirits as well as an opportunity for individual reflection on our faith journeys. As we joined in spirit with the monks at Taizé, we were nourished by their faithfulness as well as by their music. Our chants were accompanied and supported by Glen Yakushiji at the piano.
Wisdom by Jacqie Wallen
September 15, 2024
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost
At the June Women’s Breakfast, we got to talking about artificial intelligence and I shared that I was using an artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, to provide some ideas for parts of a mystery novel I was writing. In the process, I have become quite enamored of the app. Later someone at the breakfast mentioned that it was about time for me to give a sermon. Someone, I don’t remember who (maybe me?) put the two together and said, “What about using Chat GPT to write a sermon.” So, I thought I would, just for fun, try doing just that. I hope you enjoy this experiment in writing a sermon with AI. There’s a lot about Wisdom (with a capital W) in today’s lectionary readings. These were my instructions to ChatGPT: “Wisdom is portrayed as a woman in the New Testament and the Hebrew scriptures. Write a sermon about this that reflects a feminist point of view and include the idea of God, Wisdom, and the Word as feminine. Also include the idea of God as a mother.” I did a lot of editing of the AI text to make the sermon sound more like me and added some of my own reflections on mothers and the divine feminine as well as thoughts about recommitment since this is Recommitment Season, but most of the ideas in the following sermon were provided by ChatGPT.