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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“My Story of the Sacred Conversation” by Sandra Miller
15 May 2011
The 4th Sunday of Easter
Each time I come to the pulpit to preach it is to tell tales. I am not a learned theologian able to deliver revelatory exegeses of the week’s lections. Indeed, writing a sermon reminds me that even after a 30 plus year journey with Jesus, I am still like the apostles, getting it wrong too often but doing my best to follow the way by reaching into my own and the world’s broken places. So, I fall back on stories, which fits with my tendency to use many words when a few will do.
A Sermon by Cynthia Dahlin
8 May 2011
The 3rd Sunday of Easter
Happy Mother’s Day. I have lost my mother this spring, and no longer have young children to wake me at dawn and try to make breakfast, but I do have several spiritual mothers and sisters in my mission group and in former mission groups. I realized that being a spiritual mother was what I wanted to talk about today, in relation to my work at N Street Village.
“Jesus of Galilee is Good Enough for Me” by Pat Conover
1 May 2011
The 2nd Sunday of Easter
I’ve got a love/hate relationship with the Easter story and it is easier for me to get to the hate part than the love part. Marjory’s sermon last week helped. Celebration Circle’s liturgy for Easter helped. But I’ve got three problems with the Easter story. . . . Maybe some of them are problems for some of you. Maybe not. Anyhow, your listening might just help me get over my problems. If you don’t like what I say you can think of it as group therapy for me.
“While it was Still Dark” by Marjory Bankson
24 April 2011
Easter
“While it was still dark,” John’s gospel reminds us, Mary Magdalene made her way to the cave where the crucified body of Jesus had been sealed behind a huge stone. What she hoped to accomplish is not clear. I would guess she was drawn by love to keep a vigil there. When I don’t know what else to do, I would simply say BE THERE.
“What Would I Have Done?” by David Lloyd
17 April 2011
Palm/Passion Sunday
In Hebrew the term Messiah means “the anointed one.” Every king of Israel and of Judah had been anointed with oil at the onset of his reign. The Messiah too would become king, delivering Jews from oppression and into freedom and ushering in God’s kingdom, when the whole world worshipped the God of Israel and looked to the Jews for guidance, when evil and cruelty and hatred would be no more, when there would be no hunger or illness or disease or death, when ruined cities would be rebuilt and fields would be fertile, when Jewish refugees would return, when nations repented and atoned for their actions against the Jews, when peace would reign and there would be no need to create weapons, when there would be no sorrow but joy would last forever, when the dead would be raised. Belief in the coming Messiah is a very old tradition in Judaism, recorded in various scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures, especially in Isaiah. And of course, Jews still await the coming of the Messiah.