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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“Openness and Integrity of Faith” by Cynthia Dahlin
May 3, 2015
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
This week’s lectionary was very rich for me, and I had to really prune my thoughts to get to a few cogent points.
But I focused, and I am going to talk about forming my own Christian faith, then opening my mind and heart to other faiths while still holding onto my own. Having spent nearly two weeks in Israel in January, I was full of excitement reading the story in John of the conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch. I now know that the distance from Jerusalem to Gaza is about 47 miles, the chariot roads were quite good—much of the Roman aqueduct structures and the old beds of the roads still exist. The roads were through the valleys with sweeping vistas and there were many towns and small cities along them that travelers stopped at along the way, with food ready—take-out and water in the ancient style. So Phillip could have gone to the road and found travelers rather easily.
“On Shepherding and Being Shepherded” by Linda Drehmann
April 26, 2015
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
May our eyes see one another.
May our ears hear one another.
May our hearts touch one another’s.
And may our souls hold one another.
“Tending Emerging Love” by Peter Bankson
April 19, 2015
The Third Sunday of Easter
SCRIPTURE
Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 1 John 3:7
INTRODUCTION
This year our Easter theme is an invitation to celebrate emerging love, to nurture new sprouts of joy and hope and caring around us and within us and through us. Last Sunday several of us commented on the planter on the altar table, barely showing bright green sprouts, as a sign of emerging life. Today, a week later, it’s pretty clear that there’s some growing energy here. And last week AS Larry mentioned in the Word for the Children, last week he helped them plant their vegetable garden out back. I can’t wait to see what’s may be sprouting already!
“Partners for Christian Transformation” by Pat Conover
April 12, 2015
The Second Sunday of Easter
Reference: Acts 4:21-37
Seekers is not alone. We often image ourselves as alone, but we are not alone. We are not part of a denomination but we are part of a Christian movement with roots in the 1960s and 1970s, the Christian flank of the alternate culture that was suspicious of institutional authority in general and institutionalized Christianity in particular.
“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.