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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“Epiphanies and Foolish Hope” by Peter Bankson
6 March 2011
Transfiguration
Thinking about this in a season of “foolish hope” has led me to three ideas I want to explore this morning:
- The Gospel lesson for this week offers us a big Epiphany and some ideas about how to respond:fear not, but keep praying.
- Most epiphanies are small enough to overlook or treat like problems to be solved rather than mysteries to be loved.
- Receiving an epiphany may take some time, and Lent is a fine time to start.
“The Lilies of the Field: Creating an Elder-Friendly Community” by Jacqie Wallen
27 February 2011
8th Sunday of Epiphany
Call me a Marxist, but I have always loved Karl Marx’s slogan: “From each according to his ability and to each according to his need”. Or, to update it: “From each according to his or her ability and to each according to his or her need” (You can call me a Marxist but I for heaven’s sake, don’t call me politically incorrect!) Marx’s slogan seems to me to be a good basis for a just and merciful society.
“We’re in it Together” by Kate Cudlipp
20 February 2011
7th Sunday after Epiphany
We’ve been reading in the reflection paragraph for the last eight weeks, “In terms of the world’s sanity, Jesus is crazy as a coot, and anybody who thinks we can follow him without being a little crazy too is laboring less under a cross than under a delusion.”
Two Christmas Stories” by Pat Conover
13 February 2011
6th Sunday after Epiphany
This sermon grows out of a pet peeve of mine, the mixing together of the two Christmas stories in Matthew and Luke. So I’m going to take out my irritation on you. If I’m successful you will all end up feeling irritated.
Maybe if you hear the two stories separately you will actually feel thankful and instead of feeling irritated you will happily never mush them together again. After all, both are interesting stories, just different stories.
“Being Salt, Being Light” by David Lloyd
6 February 2011
5th Sunday after Epiphany
When you hear this part of the good news that Matthew tells, the Sermon on the Mount, what do you hear? What do you see? From the first time I’ve heard it, I’ve heard and seen a serious Jesus, maybe even a stern Jesus, declaiming from the hillside, telling his followers what they must be, what they must do, maybe even shaking his finger at them. It has felt burdensome, something I am expected to do, a way of living I am to take on but what I suspect deep in my heart I can never live up to.