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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“Servant Leadership” by Marjory Bankson
March 28, 2010
Palm Sunday
When I was growing up in the Pacific Northwest, Palm Sunday meant that the children were handed these odd scratchy palm fronds from a desert climate somewhere south of us, and we were allowed to wave them about to recall Jesus’ “triumphal entry into Jerusalem.” I was reminded of that by Brenda’s word for the children today. But when the children left as we sang “Jesus loves me,” I remembered something else from those early days.
“Christ has Made Me His Own” by Deborah Sokolove
March 21, 2010
Next week, on Palm Sunday, it will be twenty years since I was baptized in this congregation and gave my baptismal testimony. The following year, I stood at the pulpit again during Lent, this time speaking about war; about arriving in Jerusalem in my twenties; and about deepening our relationship with God, with one another, and with all of God’s creation. Twenty years of living in Christian community have taught me more than I had ever imagined at the beginning of this journey.
“Salvation in the Next Little Task” Pat Conover
March 14, 2010
What’s the next little task you have waiting for you when you get home? Putting away the Sunday paper? Emptying a wastebasket? Making phone calls to find a volunteer?This is a sermon aimed at helping you find salvation in the next little task, and then the next one, and then the one after that.
Kim Montroll
March 7, 2010
Guest preacher Kim Montroll spoke of how her experiences living in Haiti taught her that needing to feel helpful is not the same as actually helping.
“Following Her Call” by Marjory Bankson
February 28, 2010
Scripture:
Gen 15:1-12, 17-18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates.”
Luke 13:31-35 …I must be on my way, because it is impossible for a prophet to be killed outside of Jerusalem.
Did you hear the last statement of the Old Testament lesson appointed for today? In it, God clearly promises the land between Egypt and Iraq to the descendants of Abraham. The only catch is that the promise was written down by devout human beings – with the limited understanding of a tribal people — interpreting their own pre-history. They understood themselves as chosen by God, set apart and blessed with a divine right to that land.
It’s a story that gets repeated by every conquering people! In American history, the westward movement was justified by so-called “manifest destiny” — a belief that God had ordained that land for our taking. It is the dangerous underbelly of call.