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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A Sermon by Muriel Lipp
April 11, 2010
The Second Sunday of Easter
For many years I’ve struggled with the physical Jesus arising from the dead, as in John 20. I do believe in the resurrection, but how that took place is a mystery to me. Have you ever laid your hands on a loved one who was long dead and departed, or seen that dead one alive in some form, or heard a voice from that dead loved one telling you, “I am not dead.”
“Fishing for Men” by David Lloyd
April 4, 2010
Easter
I’ve been a fisherman all my life. My brother Andreia, too. If you want to work hard, be a fisherman: push the boat off shore and hoist the sail or row it if the wind isn’t strong enough, cast the net, wait and then haul the net in, cast the net again if the catch was small, haul it in again and sort the catch into baskets, making sure to separate the unclean catfish to sell to the Gentiles from the fish we Jews can eat, and then row ashore. Then carry the baskets to the place where the others salt or pickle the catch for sale. Check the nets for holes and mend them, or patch the boat, or repair the lines, or mend the sails, and then do it again the next day and the next and the day after that – and so on. Every day but the Sabbath. I thought that’s what my whole life would be like, like our father’s. But my life has changed.
“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.