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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“Sermon for Palm Sunday, 2015” by Marjory Bankson
March 29, 2015
Palm/Passion Sunday
Scripture: Mark 11: 1-11
Palm Sunday is such an incongruous mixture of celebration and hopefulness mixed with an undercurrent of fear and dread. Like us, the disciples knew – and didn’t want to know – what was coming. They dreaded the confrontations ahead.
As Mark tells the story, crowds of rural pilgrims were converging in Jerusalem for Passover, stirred by the stories of liberation and freedom in their yearly Passover liturgy. These excited visitors, surging through the streets of Jerusalem, would also bring legions of Roman soldiers to the city, to keep things in order. It was a volatile mix.
“A Service in the Style of Taizé – Lent, 2015”
March 15, 2015 The Fourth Sunday in Lent 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.
“Keep Moving in the Right Direction” by Elizabeth Gelfeld
March 8, 2015
The Third Sunday in Lent
Did you see the sky on Friday morning? It was amazingly, almost impossibly blue, absolutely clear, and the bright sunshine turned all the new snow into a sparkling bedazzlement of beauty. And the quiet. I felt the quiet on Thursday evening, around sunset, after I spent half an hour shoveling the walk and then took our dog for a short walk. The street felt like a cathedral as I walked under the high arches of snow-laden tree branches. I was drawn into prayer.
“Tell Me More” by Anna Gilcher
March 1, 2015
The Second Sunday in Lent
I’m reading the commentaries on the texts for this Sunday and all I can think is blah blah blah blah blah. God loves you! Pick up your cross! Oh, you have a cross too? Quelle surprise!
Abraham laughed! Sarah laughed! God’s promise will not be broken! Woo-hoo!
Fifteen years after the first sermon I ever preached, the commentaries are starting to feel stale.
A lot has changed in my life. Fifteen years ago, I had a one-year-old daughter. Now that daughter is sixteen and I have an almost fourteen-year-old son. Fifteen years ago, I’d been married for five years. Now I’ve been married for twenty. Fifteen years ago, these messages felt fresh. Now…? At a deep level, I can feel that God is still speaking. Yet, the things that were revelations then are sometimes things I have now heard ten, twenty, thirty times before.
Notes from a Lenten Reflection by Jesse Palidofsky
February 22, 2015 The First Sunday in Lent (The full text of Jesse’s sermon is not available. The following notes are intended to provide a general sense of it.) Lent is a time for bearing witness to the pain of others. In so doing, we come home to our own wholeness and to the Christ within, and the path of vulnerability becomes a Lenten practice. Lent is a time to practice our dying, a time when we can let go of being victims and take full responsibility for our lives. As this happens, we may be called to let go of call and thus to be open to the next call.