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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“Genesis 22: Faithfulness” by Cari Willis
June 29, 2008
I will confess something right off the top – I HATE Genesis 22!
• Who is this God who asks someone to sacrifice his son?
• How can Abraham be so willing to put his son on the altar?
• Doesn’t this portray God as just playing around with our human emotions with this test – it is only a test?
“Transformation Through Being” by Kjerston Priddy of N Street Village
June 22, 2008
In a reflection on the work of N Street Village, one of my co-worker’s shared a quote. Famously attributed to Nelson Mandela, the quote by author Marianne Williamson went as follows: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
“Sent as Apostles” by David Lloyd
June 15, 2008
Last week the Hebrew Scriptures passage was about God, out of grace, calling to Abram — but not to his wife Sarai. Abram was 75 years old when they moved into the land of Canaan, Sarai was presumed barren (the name Sarai means mockery) and as we just heard, this week’s passage is about how the now 99 year old Abraham, as he has since been renamed to mean "father of many nations", and Sarah, as she has been renamed to mean "princess", were, out of God’s grace, promised a son within the next year.
“The Illuminated Sea”
June 8, 2008
I also planned to use my time in Mexico to work on the sermon I had volunteered to give today. I thought it would be something about Illuminated Sea, since that was my overall theme for the trip. That topic seemed initially to fit nicely with the lectionary verse from Psalms for today: “He gathers the waters of the sea into jars; he puts the deep into storehouses,” even though that verse made absolutely no sense at all to me. Why would God put the waters of the sea into jars? And did they even have jars back then when only the basic elements had been created?
“Sermon on the Mount” by Muriel Lipp
May 25, 2008
It is the season of Pentecost, the presence of the Holy Spirit among us. Having gone through the death and resurrection of Jesus, we are, in this Matthew text, back in his life again. There is much to learn in these ten verses of Matthew, part of the Sermon on the Mount. It seems strange to be preaching a sermon on a sermon. Didn’t Jesus say it all?