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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“Street Sense” by Street Sense
May 18, 2014 The Fifth Sunday of Easter Street Sense offered the word this Sunday. Street Sense elevates voices on poverty issues and creates economic opportunities for people experiencing homelessness. With support from Roy Barber and Leslie Jacobson, a group of Street Sense vendors told their stories in song and spoken word. Street Sense is also a biweekly newspaper sold on the street by the vendors as a means of support.
A Sermon for Good Shepherd Sunday by Larry Rawlings
May 11, 2014
The Fourth Sunday of Easter
From all the evangelists and from the Old Testament too, we are used to the image of the Good Shepherd; “The Lord is my shepherd,” we recited with the Psalmist in our response this morning. But in The Gospel we just heard, The Lord is not the Shepherd; He is the gate to the pen where the sheep are kept,
the gate through which the shepherd must pass.
“Imperishable Seeds of Living Hope” by Peter Bankson
May 4, 2014
The Third Sunday of Easter
This time between Easter and Pentecost seems like “chrysalis time.” The caterpillar is being transformed into a new being, one that will carry the Good News to all corners of Creation. The grains of wheat, ground to make bread, die to their identity as seeds even as they feed our identity as the Body of Christ. Is this the “Living Hope” that we carry in our souls as our gift from God? How many grains of wheat have given up their lives to nourish this Body of Christ today?
“Grief and Revelation” by Pat Conover
April 27, 2014
The Second Sunday of Easter
I was spiritually and emotionally gripped by the painting The Pieta of Avignon when we toured the home and museum of the Ecuadoran artist Oswald Guayasamin. It is a large painting, the only one on a wall in an alcove set aside for the painting. There was a comfortable bench for seeing and meditating. I took my time there.
“Becoming a Body” by Marjory Zoet Bankson
April 20, 2014
Easter
Although Easter is celebrated with bright colors, joyful music and triumphal imagery, the story actually begins in darkness and it stays fairly shadowy throughout the next fifty days, until Pentecost. Resurrection remains a mystery during that time.