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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“How Shall We Live?” by Peter Bankson
2 October 2011
The 16th Sunday After Pentecost
When I offered to bring us a word this morning I thought I’d try to take a fresh look at the Ten Commandments, our Hebrew Scripture lesson for the week. I wondered what would happen if I approached God’s Commandments to the Hebrew people, these core guidelines for right behavior, from a fresh perspective. In this season of our annual recommitment I thought this exercise might help me find language for some of the growing understanding I have of what it means to be on the Way with Jesus, trying to see the basic guideline he offered more clearly: to Love God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself.
“Testing God During Recommitment Season” by Dave Lloyd
25 September 2011
The 15th Sunday After Pentecost
The descendents of Avraham were working in the Egyptians fields in the Nile delta, or making bricks, or quarrying stone, or dragging huge stones up a ziggurat to form a pyramid or carving a monument into rock. It was hard work and many of them injured or accidentally killed or beaten by cruel taskmasters until they died. Then one day a stranger appeared and began a series of confrontations with the Pharaoh, claiming that they did not belong to Pharaoh and demanding that the Pharaoh release the children of Yisrael from their slavery. The Pharaoh was incredulous at Moshe’s gall: he thought the Israelites belonged to him and so he refused to release them.
A Sermon by Joelle Novey
18 September 2011
The 14th Sunday After Pentecost
Joelle Novey, Director of Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light, brought the Word this morning.
For the agricultural people who tilled vineyards in Jesus’ time, who read the same Hebrew Bible as we do, the manna in the desert must have seemed like an amazing thing to be able to take for granted. “Do you remember the desert?” they must have reminisced. “When God was our caterer? When we didn’t have to do all this work to sustain ourselves, but when we just took for granted that, every day, manna would just fall onto our plates from the sky? Can you believe anyone ever complained about that?” the people must have said, as they climbed up ladders with tools to prune vines and pick grapes. “That was awesome.”
And what about us? We certainly don’t live like the Israelites in the desert, letting our food fall from the sky for us, although supermarkets and factory farming so separate us from the land that it sometimes feels that way.
A Service of Memory and Hope for 9/11
11 September 2011
The 13th Sunday After Pentecost
On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Seekers prayed out of the silence and lit candles in memory of those who died in the violence of that day.
Three Words from Guatemala by the Smith-Estrada Family
4 September 2011
The 12th Sunday After Pentecost
Leslie Smith, Steven Estrada, and Annie Smith-Estrada were members of Seekers Guatemala Pilgrimage earlier this summer. Today, each of them offered some reflections on that journey.