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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“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.
“Written on our Hearts” by Deborah Sokolove
Recommitment Sunday, October 20, 2013
The 22nd Sunday after Pentecost
Are the spiritual disciplines qualifications for becoming a Steward, barriers or hurdles that are hard to pass? Or are they aspirational, a mark or target at which to aim? Are they laws, branding us as sinners when we fail to live up to their exacting criteria; or are they external guides, helping us to become more sensitive to the inner guidance of the Holy Spirit as we move towards an ever-deepening love of God, our neighbors, and ourselves?
“Discovering How Call, Community & the Inward/Outward Concept Contributes to my God Consciousness” by Linda Nunes-Schrag
October 13, 2013
The 21st Sunday after Pentecost
I was born and raised Catholic in India and Tanzania, so were my parents, grand and great-parents. We might have been converted by the Portuguese when they colonized Goa in the late 14th century, I don’t know. My early education was by German and Indian Catholic nuns and a few lay teachers which contributed to me having had a solid Catholic influence. My notion of Call was based on the premise that God called certain people to become priests or nuns.
“We are All in this Together” by Brenda Seat
October 6, 2013
The 20th Sunday after Pentecost
Although we began our Recommitment Season at the beginning of September, it is usually about this time, when there are only two more Sundays left before Recommitment Sunday, that I get serious about preparing. I take out the questions that have been in the bulletin for weeks now and finally put them in my purse to take home and review. I look at my calendar for the next two weeks and try to figure out how I am going to squeeze in my hour in the chapel contemplating my commitment to God and to this community. Every year I am pretty certain that I am going to renew my commitment. It all seems rather perfunctory. After all “We are all in this together,” right?