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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“Where Is Your Treasure?” by Marjory Zoet Bankson
August 1, 2010
Last Monday, I was sitting on a bus in the Highlands of Guatemala with David Novello, as we threaded our way past the giagantic potholes created by Hurricane Agatha.. I asked him what had surprised him the most about our pilgrimage.
He answered: “The richness of the land and the people here. I had a certain image of poverty that probably comes from the urban landscape in the U.S., but that’s not at all what I experienced here in Guatemala.”
“Prayer and Forgiveness” by David Lloyd
July 25, 2010
As I meditated on today’s passage from Hosea I thought, what kind of God is this? A God who uses the metaphor of a man marrying a prostitute — she may have been a prostitute for one of the rituals at a pagan temple in Israel — to symbolize how God’s people have abandoned the true faith, a God who names the first child of that union “God shall sow” to symbolize the sowing of the seeds of God’s wrath, who names the second child “Unloved” to symbolize how God will never forgive the people again, and who names the third child “Not my people” to symbolize a disavowing of having chosen the people. What kind of God is this?
“Holy Week in the Holy Land: A Ripe Basket of Fruit” by Kate Amoss
July 18, 2010
In the format of an InterPlay technique called The Big Story, Kate shared images and impressions from her trip to the Holy Land over Holy Week 2010.
Blessing the Mural
July 11, 2010
This week, the congregation gathered in the Nursery to bless the mural. The children showed us the parts they had painted, and told a little of what it meant for them.
“Dancing with Fear” by Pat Conover
July 4, 2010
I have plenty of fear stories even though most of them happened when I was young and strong, prepared and experienced in direct fighting, well-armed and a marksman, never sought out recreation like bungee jumping to get a fear rush of adrenalin, and paid a lot of attention to standard safety precautions. I had the advantages of being white, male, education, with good middle-class parents. I’ve risked into situations with some danger but I never felt I needed to prove my courage or defend a macho self-image. My basic posture has been that danger is often real, fear is commonly appropriate and very helpful, and we all die anyhow.