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 Big Body Story by Kate Amoss
8 January 2012
The 1st Sunday after Epiphany
Kate Amoss, a gifted Interplay leader, used the Big Body technique augmented by creative use of voice, interpreting the lections for the week. Both in body and voice Kate evoked a range of emotions by employing fluid and sudden body movement emphasized by similar vocal expression.
“Follow the Star” by Marjory Bankson
1 January 2012
Celebrating Epiphany
Today we are celebrating Epiphany because it is the first Sunday in January. Others will celebrate Epiphany as the Twelfth Night after Christmas or Three Kings Day on January 6. No matter when it is celebrated, Epiphany celebrates Jesus as the Christ beyond his Jewish origins. In other words, the wise men with their gifts represent the Gentile world in the Christmas story. It’s where most of us arrive at the manger.
A Christmas Pageant
18 December 2011
The Fourth Sunday of Advent
Keith and Brenda assembled a composite Christmas pageant using slides from last year and from 1993. The little children in the earlier version are grownups now, and it was fun to see what changes and what remains the same in acting out the story of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem.
“Farther Along” by John M.
4 December 2011
The Second Sunday of Advent
Well, we’re entering the Advent season, and we heard today from the Gospel of Mark how John the Baptist prepared the way for the Lord, and made straight paths for him. “I baptize you with water,” John said, “but he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”
That’s an interesting theme – the idea that we sometimes enter a crucial turning point in our lives, and we know it because there’s a herald, a voice crying out – or just someone who says, “Listen to me, but don’t make the mistake of thinking I’m God. Why, I’m not even worthy to untie God’s sandals. I can make it easier for you to find God, and then I’ll get out of the way.”
“Salvation” by Pat Conover
27 November 2011
The First Sunday of Advent
The word salvation is actively disliked by some of you because of bad experiences with some traditional expressions of Christianity. I want to recapture the word for Seekers because it carries the image of a big change. The salvation vision of Jesus is transformative, more than an endless series of small and often conflicting reforms. Salvation is moving from illness and injury to health whatever our physiological condition, however we are being mistreated. It helps to have a transformative vision even when we live into the work we do, the choices we make, whatever the complexities we know and don’t know, whatever our resources, limits, contingencies, and opportunities