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.
“God is Blue” by Pat Conover
November 14, 2010
Salvation is about experiencing God and experiencing ourselves in relationship to God. It is the experience itself that grounds salvation. Understanding and appreciating the experience of God, understanding and appreciating our relationship with God, builds on the direct experience of God and guides us into thankfulness for our lives, for our human relationships, and for the world we live in. We build with constructions of concepts and language to help us understand and communicate with each other about our experiences of God. We construct images to help us appreciate and communicate about our experiences of God.
“For All the Saints” by Marjory Bankson
November 7, 2010
Who are these saints, whose pictures grace the altar table today? I see no famous people. No world-class martyrs. Or pop heroes either. Just a lot of ordinary faces — most lined with care and experience. Most have a twinkle in the eye suggesting a kind of life-force that we loved in them — or felt from them.
Here at Seekers, we don’t have a list to read of those who have died this year. In fact, nobody has died out of our fellowship — and that’s usually when we designate somebody a “saint” — after they’re gone. Since we have no new names to add to our memory wall in the back stairwell, I want to take this occasion to encourage you to write your own piece for our memory book (indicate book on the altar). Here at Seekers, we’d like you to describe who you are in your own words for the next generation. And add a picture too.
A Sermon by Dan Hall
October 31, 2010
Dan Hall, a member of one of the other Church of the Saviour worshipping communities, gave the sermon today. The text is not yet available.
“The Spiritual Practice of Gratitude as an Antitdote to Fear” by Jesse
October 24, 2010
I so much appreciate how we Seekers work with the Word not only through the Lectionary passages–but also view the lives of each of us as Living Scripture. Or, as we would say in clinical pastoral education, each of us is “The Living Human Document”. In my experience, this is a major piece of why Seekers is so amazingly able to empower so many of us to find and follow our individual callings. I am tremendously appreciative!
“Rekindle the Gift of God: Put Down Your Roots” by Peter Bankson
October 17, 2010
As I did my homework for the covenant class and, reflected on how faithful people have understood God’s covenant over the millennia, three things about commitment became freshly clear to me:
• Commitment is all about relationships;
• We need to put down some roots in order to grow; and
• Life is a cycle, with beginnings and endings to celebrate all the time.