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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A Sermon by Pat Conover
1 July 2012
5th Sunday After Pentecost
I was tempted to toss my sermon plan and preach on the Samuel passage. I offer a brief reflection on verses twelve to fourteen of the Corinthians passage which deals with Paul’s theology of giving, giving from his Gentile churches to the poverty of the Jewish community in Jerusalem, before turning to the primary focus of my sermon. Here are verses twelve to fourteen in my U. S. language version based on the Revised New English Bible.
If we give eagerly according to our means that is acceptable to God. God doesn’t ask us to give what we don’t have. You don’t need to relieve others at a cost of hardship to yourselves. It is a question of equality. At the moment your surplus meets their need. One day your need may be met from their surplus. The aim is equality.
“Whoever Does the Will of God” by Deborah Sokolove
10 June 2012
The 3rd Sunday After Pentecost
In today’s Gospel reading, we have been dumped into the middle of a story. All through the Easter season, and on through Pentecost and Trinity Sundays, we’ve been reading mostly from John. Today, suddenly, we are in the third chapter of Mark, where we hear that Jesus is being followed around by such large crowds that from time to time he has to get on a boat or climb up a mountain, just to have time to have a bite to eat or stop to listen to what God is saying to him.
“A Sermon for Pentecost” by Elizabeth Gelfeld
27 May 2012
Pentecost
Before I came to Seekers Church, during the years our children were growing up, our family belonged to the Interfaith Families Project, IFFP, a congregation of about 100 families, mostly with children and mostly with one Jewish and one Christian parent. In IFFP, we were intentionally raising our children with both religions. So, when holidays came around it was double the fun. In December we would have workshops with titles like “Don’t Light the Menorah Too Close to the Christmas Tree.” At Passover each year we had a community Seder. On Easter Sunday, families would go to their various churches until IFFP began holding its own Easter Sunday service after one of our Jewish members insisted on it.
A Sermon For Seekers Church by Lauren Seat
May 13, 2012
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
Good morning.
In this week’s scripture reading from John, Jesus says, “This is my commandment:
Love one another as I have loved you.”
That’s what religion is all about for me, doing our best to love one another. For me, Seekers is a model of what this commandment looks like. Throughout my life I’ve known that Seekers is a place of love and acceptance.
A Service in the Style of Taizé – 29 April 2012
The 4th Sunday of Easter 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. This Sunday was one such time. Repeating the chants together until they die away into the silence provides rest for our world-weary spirits as well as an opportunity for individual reflection on our faith journeys. As we joined in spirit with the monks at Taizé, we were nourished by their faithfulness as well as by their music.