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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“Beginning the Jesus Story” by Pat Conover
December 7, 2014
The Second Sunday of Advent
The first part of this sermon is about Christmas and the second part is about beginning the story of Jesus.
This is a bookend sermon to my sermon in which I spoke about how Easter screws up the story about what is most spiritually important concerning the death of Jesus. Taken together, Christmas and Easter, as the biggest events of the Christian year, completely skip Jesus as a grown adult who embodied, led, taught, and healed. It was grown up Jesus who gathered close followers, who pointed to the salvation importance of recognizing the Holy Spirit in our lives and relationships.
“A Sermon for Advent” by Muriel S. Lipp
November 30, 2014
The First Sunday of Advent
I was moved to stand here today mostly by the Isaiah Scripture, particularly that phrase, “Thou art the Potter—I am the clay.” Since it’s the first Sunday in Advent, I wondered how that thought portrayed the birth of Jesus. We know that Isaiah predicted the birth of The Messiah several times, saying, “Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son ,” and once he even confessed his own doubts: “Shall a woman bear a child without pain?…Who has heard of anything like this?” Like Isaiah, those are my thoughts too, but since am the clay, I’m not yet fully formed.
“Love and Acting on Love” by David Novello
November 23, 2014
Feast of the Reign of Christ
Three weeks ago Jackie Wallen preached about the thin places, where we find ourselves closer to God. I’ve loved that image since I first heard it a few years ago. We all have our thin places and thick places too. I said in mission group a while back that things really thicken up for me in this Sanctuary when we stand to sing a hymn. If I thought I had any real chance of success, I’d petition Celebration Circle to cut back the number of hymns to one or two per service or, best of all, none. I’d much rather extend the time of our periods of silence because for me it is often in the silence that everything thins out.
“Being Ready” by Marcia Sprague
November 9, 2014
Twenty-second Sunday After Pentecost
The Gospel today speaks of the bridesmaids who were ready – who had filled their lamps with oil and of the ones who had not. I find more questions than answers in reading this passage:
What does it mean to be ready?
What am I getting ready for?
To be in the presence of God?
How do I prepare myself to be in the presence of God?
Where do I find this lamp oil?
“Thin Places” by Jacqie Wallen
November 2, 2014
The Feast of All Saints
Today we are celebrating All Saints Day. All Saints Day is a part of a sequence: of days — Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and All Souls Day – that mark a special time of year. It’s the season when we become acutely aware that our days are getting cooler and our nights are getting longer. We stand between summer and winter, light and dark, life and death, the ordinary world and the world of spirits. These days, Jan Richardson says, are:
A sacred space in the turning of the year—what Celtic folk have long called a thin place, where past, present, and future intertwine, and the veil between worlds becomes permeable.”