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.
Click here for an archive of our sermons.
Feel free to use what is helpful from these sermons. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and the author, and cite the URL.
A Sermon for the Feast of the Reign of Christ by Larry Rawlings
November 24, 2013 The Feast of the Reign of Christ The text of this sermon is not yet available.
“The Image of the Invisible God” by Elizabeth Gelfeld
November 17, 2013
The 26th Sunday after Pentecost
We are coming to the end of our Jubilee season and, also, the end of the church year. You can tell, because we’re already seeing Christmas ads on TV, and some of us are aware that there are only ten more cooking days till Thanksgiving. Liturgy geeks are excited because next Sunday is the final one of Year C in the lectionary cycle, and the following Sunday we start the three-year cycle of Bible readings all over with Year A, as we enter the season of Advent.
A Service in the Style of Taizé in Jubilee 2013
November 10, 2013
The 25th Sunday after Pentecost
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.
“For All the Saints” by Marjory Bankson
November 3, 2013
The Feast of All Saints
In most Protestant churches, All Saints Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after November 1. We usually honor those who have died during the year and acknowledge them as saints and guiding spirits, but most of us here in this room don’t think of ourselves as saints, or even saints-in-the-making. It’s a word that smacks of special virtue and dedication, or never-ending sacrifice. No teenager and few adults would even want to be accused of being a saint.
“The Image of the Invisible God” by John Morris
October 27, 2013
The 23 Sunday after Pentecost
I’ve had pretty good success as a poet, though I took it up comparatively late in life, when I was nearly 40. As everyone knows, poets are annoying, because they never quite say what they mean – or else they do, but you can’t tell what they mean – or they kind of laugh at you behind your back for even asking What does it mean? or caring about such boring questions at all. Archibald MacLeish wrote (in a poem, of course), “A poem should not mean but be,” and Robert Frost, when asked at a reading what a certain poem of his meant, proceeded to read it again.