Sermons

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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Feel free to use what is helpful from these sermons. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and the author, and cite the URL.

“That They May be One” by Jill Joseph

5 June 20112011_Easter_1_inch

The 7th Sunday of Easter

 

My faith is pretty spare, running deep but rather silently through my days. And I found myself wallowing in the many words of this week’s readings, wading disconsolately through the ancient, discomforting suggestion that there is one true God and that only through him is eternal life available.

 

This was not an easy week of readings for me.

 

But I invite you to look with me again today’s readings, consider what is being offered here and ask if it is possible that they can inform my life of faith, and perhaps yours?

“My Story of the Sacred Conversation” by Sandra Miller

15 May 20112011_Easter_1_inch

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 20112011_Easter_1_inch

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 20112011_Easter_1_inch

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.