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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“The Body, Desire, and the Faith Journey” by Billy Amoss
July 6, 2014
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Good morning. I’d like to ask you to close your eyes and breathe in and out. Just pay attention to your breath as you inhale and exhale. Now open your eyes and together let’s take a deep breath in and let it out with a sigh. Let’s do that again: deep breath in, and out with a sigh.
This simple practice can be very helpful in bringing us into the present and making us aware of the centrality of our physicality.
“‘When We Get to Carroll Street’: The First Ten Years” by Keith S.
June 29, 2014
Third Sunday After Pentecost
Good morning.
On this Sunday ten years ago, I was standing here giving the first sermon in our newly-renovated building, for which we had just obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy. I began:
“Here we are at our new building on Carroll Street! Isn’t it great to finally be here? What a remarkable journey it’s been. We can now officially retire the phrase ‘When We Get to Carroll Street’!”
“God’s Promise” — Candace Wells
June 22, 2014
Second Sunday After Pentecost
“The Names of God” by Deborah Sokolove
June 15, 2014
Trinity Sunday
There is a certain irony, or perhaps synchronicity, in the fact that today is the secular celebration called “Father’s Day” at the same time that we are celebrating Trinity Sunday in church. As we just heard, the most common terms for the three Persons of the Holy Trinity are Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. While Father and Son are important in terms of both scripture and tradition, to address the Divine solely as male figures is to limit that which is without limits, and to suggest that human fathers and sons are somehow more god-like than human mothers and daughters. But the Holy One who creates, sustains, and frees us to live in eternal joy is more than two old men and a bird, as all too many paintings suggest. The Eternal Divine, who in our tradition is mysteriously both Holy One and Holy Three, is not male, not female, not neuter, but includes all genders and none, male, female, trans, fluid, and impossible to describe.
“Can You Make It a Habit to Think that Way” by Brenda S.
June 8, 2014
Pentecost
It has been a terrifying and strange time for the followers of Jesus. Their leader was treated as a criminal and crucified. Peter, supposedly one of Jesus’ staunchest followers, succumbed to fear and denied even knowing Jesus and they all hid, not knowing what was going to happen to them next. They had suffered a tremendous loss and undoubtedly felt abandoned. Then Jesus appeared to the women at the tomb and then to the disciples and he walked and talked and ate with them, but only for a short while and then as Luke says, “in the act of blessing, he parted from them.”