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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“Living the Covenant with Othandweni” by Jackie McMakin and Jean Adams
26 February 2012
The First Sunday in Lent
The Genesis reading lifts up a genius idea – covenant. We’re told that living in covenant is a way to bear fruit, to bring goodness to the world. Covenant implies relationship, connection, a mutual giving of gifts to one another.
Seekers lives the covenant with each other and with lots of people around the world through our giving and our association. This morning Jean and I want to lift up one of these associations – our relationship with the Othandweni Guest House and Day Care.
“Living into the Mystery” by Brennan Baker
19 February 2012
Transfiguration
Brennan Baker is a participant in the Church of the Saviour Discipleship Year program. He shared part of his spiritual journey with Seekers.
“From Failure to Failure with Great Enthusiasm” by Richard Jaeggi
12 February 2012
The 6th Sunday after Epiphany
A few weeks ago I had a dream that startled and amazed me. I was in a plane with some other people. There was a kind of military drill instructor in the plane who told us that when the plane had reached a height of 14 hundred feet that we would jump out. I was a little nervous about this as I had no training or experience of sky-diving, I became still more concerned when he informed us that we would do this without the aid of a parachute. … When I woke up and pondered what this dream could mean, it occurred to me that this expressed precisely my experience of divine Call in the world.
“Broken and Whole All at Once” by Brenda Seat
5 February 2012
The 5th Sunday after Epiphany
In the Gospel lesson today, we are introduced to Jesus as he is just beginning his ministry. He is returning from preaching at the synagogue at Capernaum and he and these newly-minted disciples, who have just begun to follow Jesus, go to Simon’s home. There they find that Simon’s mother-in-law is sick and in no shape to feed them or make them welcome. But Jesus takes her hand and heals her and she then begins “to minster to their needs.”
“Mountain Top Coal Mining” by Dottie Bocksteigel
29 January 2012
The 4th Sunday after Epiphany
This summer I visited the town of Appalachia in Wise county which is in the south west corner of Virginia. There I met with a group called the Southern Appalalchian Mountain Stewards. They are trying to protect the mountain above their town from being blown apart by mountain top coal mining. One third of their county has already been destroyed by this kind of mining with dire results for the people who live in the area. They are being poisoned by toxic coal dust, and their water is being polluted with toxic waste containing dozens of heavy metals including arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium. Families who were once surrounded by some of the most beautiful land on earth are now fighting to save what is left of their mountains and to save their own lives.