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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“Walking in Darkness” by Jacqie Wallen
October 11, 2015
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
It is Recommitment Season at Seekers. It seems fitting to me that our season of recommitment occurs during the time of growing cold and darkness that follows the Autumnal Equinox in September. The days are growing shorter and the nights longer. On November 1st, Daylight Savings time ends and even our afternoons grow dark. We are heading into the darkness which does not begin to recede until after the Winter Solstice, which occurs right around the time we celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Susan Cooper’s poem about the Winter Solstice gives a sense of how humans have always feared this dark time of year and how much we rejoice when the light begins its return. I’ll read it.
“Taking the Body Seriously” by John Morris
September 27, 2015
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Being embodied is a strange experience. Oh, wait a minute – I guess I mean “being alive.” How could I be alive without my body? All right, then, being alive is a strange experience. It’s a kind of user illusion, isn’t it? I locate my “self” up “here,” in my “head” — notice how I have to use these scare-quotes constantly, since none of it is really “true” — and this “self” seems to experience all kinds of freedom and independence – I can think anything, imagine whatever I please – while the body, “down below,” politely gets out of the way. Better yet, my “self” can start giving orders to that body at a moment’s notice, and lo and behold, the body obeys! or at least it tries to.
“Losing My Life to Save It” by Michele Frome
September 13, 2015
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
“Get out of my sight, you Satan!” Ouch! Can you image how much that statement hurt, when Jesus aimed it at Peter – Peter, the one who loved him so! And what was Peter’s sin, what caused Jesus to label him as Satan?
In the reading, Jesus says that Peter’s sin was “judging by human standards rather than by God’s” or, in the words of a different translation, “setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.” (I don’t know about you, but I frequently judge by human standards & think about human things – so Jesus has my attention.)
Worshipping in the Style of Taizé
September 6, 2015 Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Several times each year, 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.
“Exploring the Song of Songs: An InterPlay Sermon” with Kate Amoss
August 30, 2015
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
The Song of Songs has a different spirit from any other biblical passage. Neither historical nor instructive, it is, instead, a glorious celebration of human love and desire. While scholars do not agree on the authorship of the Song of Songs, they mostly agree that it echoes the ancient love poems of the sacred marriage between Inanna, the Sumerian mother-goddess, and Dumuzi, the Sumerian harvest god. The text contains elements of some of the very earliest written records of civilization. It gives some clues to our human awareness in a time before language had come to shape our consciousness so strongly.