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 House of Cedar” by Muriel Lipp
July 19, 2015
The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Dear God, be with us as we worship you and try to learn more about you.
There are four things I have been most moved by in our lectionary scriptures for this week.
God’s message to David in Second Samuel; go build me a house of cedar.
Psalm 89; God affirms David to express God’s holiness.
Ephesians 2; Jews and gentiles are one, and Jesus is the foundation stone.
Mark 6; Jesus making a meal of a few loaves and fishes for a throng of
people. Then he walks on water and heals many people.
“Hearing God’s Voice: Herod and Me” by Katie Murchison Ross
July 12, 2015
The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Good morning everyone. It’s wonderful to be here, and it’s wonderful to have the chance to share this morning. When Peter Bankson asked me to preach, he gave me the lectionary readings for this week and then suggested that since I’m a guest new to this community, it would be nice if I could share some of my story as well. So, I said, “sounds great.” Then I looked at today’s gospel reading and I thought hmm…beheading of John the Baptist…my life story… I thought about preaching on the Psalm. But I’m glad I wrestled with this text, because I found resonances in places I didn’t expect.
“Power and Powerlessness” by Ken Burton
July 5, 2015
The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
This morning I would like to reflect for a few minutes on power and powerlessness. Let me say right at the beginning that it is not a topic with which I am fully comfortable. This is because of my limited personal experience with certain aspects of it. Such a limitation would usually cause me to avoid a particular subject, but this matter of power and powerlessness kept coming to my attention as I worked with this morning’s lections. Paul deals with it explicitly in the passage from Second Corinthians, and there are echoes of it in the other lections so I felt led to plunge in.
“On Prayer” by Billy Amoss
June 23, 2015
The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep,
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.
Amen.
This was the prayer I was taught to say as a child every evening at bedtime. I don’t think I knew what it really meant. The first four words, Now I lay me, were strung together in my mind to form the single word “nowilayme.” I did not think of the possibility that I might die in my sleep, nor that it was important that if that happened, God accept my soul into his eternal realm. I say “his” realm because, of course, I thought of God as male.
New Story Leadership 2015
June 21, 2015 The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost New Story Leadership for the Middle East is an organization that brings together Israeli and Palestinian young adults to work, live, and share their stories with one another and with faith communities. Participants in this summer’s program spoke at Seekers this morning during the time of sharing the Word. Two speakers from among the participants, one Israeli and the other Palestinian, shared their experiences of growing up in the midst of the long-standing conflict. Each is committed to an ongoing project in support of peaceful sharing of the land they all call home.