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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A Sermon by Roy Barber
January 3, 2016 Epiphany Observed Roy offered some moving reflections on his spiritual journey. The full text is not available.
A Sermon by Larry Rawlings
December 27, 2015 Christmastide The text of Larry’s sermon is not available for posting.
“Mary’s Hope” by David Lloyd
December 20, 2015
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
For reasons that I cannot understand, the portion of Luke’s Gospel in our lection for this week skips right past the Annunciation to Mary. When I knew that our Gospel passage would be from the first chapter of Luke I was all set to ask Glen to play those two beautiful versions of Ave Maria, one by Gounod and one by Schubert. I was waiting to hear the interchange between the angel and Mary. According to Luke the angel began by saying, “Greetings, most favored one. The Lord is with you.” When Mary responded with, essentially, “Huh? What do you mean?” the angel said the most important words, words that an angel had said to Zechariah, father of John the Baptist and husband of Mary’s relative Elizabeth, words said months later to shepherds out in the fields, words said to the people of God throughout history, words that we desperately need to hear: “Do not be afraid.” Then Luke has the angel tell her what was going to happen.
“GUNS – From Despair to Hope” by the Eyes to See, Ears to Hear Peace Prayer Mission Group
December 13, 2015
The Third Sunday of Advent
Pat Conover
I was afraid, very afraid.
It was the late 1950’s and early 60’s. I was 16, 17 … 21, 22. It was the time of mutually assured destruction when we could kill every Russian more times than they could kill each one of us, tens of thousands of atomic and hydrogen bomb explosions.
My friend and I decided we did not want to die, that we would try to survive. We were thoughtful and planned carefully. Just the right unmarked cave about forty miles west of Tallahassee, a cave in a hill which meant it would never flood. It had two entrances, neither one obvious. It had a room as big as this one [Seeker’s Church sanctuary] with a spring in it that would provide fresh clean water. We stocked the cave with food, medical supplies, and a bicycle powered electrical system that provided plenty of light.
“Getting Ready for Incarnation” by Peter Bankson
November 29, 2015
The First Sunday of Advent
This year our Advent theme is an invitation to celebrate not just the birth of Baby Jesus, but the incarnation of the Creator. Our reflection paragraph says it this way:
Perhaps the hardest thing to remember about Christmas is this. It celebrates the incarnation, not just the nativity. The incarnation is an on-going process of salvation, while the nativity is the once-for-all-historical event of Bethlehem. We do not really celebrate Christ’s ‘birthday,’ remembering something that happened long ago. We celebrate the stupendous fact of the incarnation, God entering our world so thoroughly that nothing has been the same since.
What will it take for us to recognize, claim and live more fully into the reality that God, the Creator, is alive and present in every rock and bone, in every drop of water and the blood of every living part of this reality?
What can we do to get ready, in these troubled times, for the deeper revelation that every thought and thing is part of the Creator?
As we look at the dismaying depth of trouble all around us, it makes me wonder: Are WE in trouble, or just everybody else?