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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Prophetic Hope by Anna Gilcher
July 15, 2007
I love the idea of prophecy being hope-filled, of its being, as Walter Brueggeman puts it and we heard this morning, "the language of amazement which cuts through the despair just as the language of grief is against the numbness." I love the idea; but I can’t really wrap my mind around it. I read the Amos passage—I even read the whole book of Amos this week (it’s not very long)—and I sense its importance—but I get stuck in either self-righteousness ("tell that to George Bush!" or "to congress" or "to the CEOs of corporations") or despair when I look at my life and see in how many ways I’m implicated in systems that beat down anyone who has less… you name it… education, money, connections.
Call and Companionship by Peter Bankson
July 8, 2007
As I worked with our lessons for this week I was surprised to see companionship everywhere! In addition to the Gospel story of Jesus sending out the seventy, the Hebrew Scripture and the Epistle also offer examples of spiritual companionship. Each one is different, but they each offer us different insights on the importance of companionship as we respond to God’s call on our lives. Here’s what I saw this time:
† Shared tasks help us learn to trust each other
† Sometimes pride impedes progress
† It’s hard to accept help from someone who’s in the same boat
Dreamers With Big Dreams by Lia Scholl
June 24, 2007
As the introductions told you, my name is Lia Scholl and I run a growing non-profit that ministers to exotic dancers. The short of it is that I train women to be chaplains in strip clubs. Those women, organized in teams, visit the clubs regularly, and provide friendship to the dancers.
Torture In Our Midst by Pat Conover
June 17, 2007
The South I grew up in was not that far removed from the time of lynching. Some of the Freedom Riders who came to Tallahassee left with serious and permanent disabilities. In Chicago, our Boy Scout leader was shot between the eyes by a Blackstone Ranger. Both in Tallahassee and in Chicago I was as afraid of the police as I was of the criminals. I learned there were good police and bad police, good Blackstone Rangers and bad, good Ku Klux Klan members and bad, good Sergeants and bad, good officers and bad. I was learning that there is bad in the best of us and good in the worst of us.
Right, Left, Straight, Circle by John Morris
June 10, 2007
This sermon is inspired by a lot of doubts I’ve had recently about what attitude to take toward the Christian Right – or more broadly, toward people who claim to be Christians but live it out in ways I disagree with.
It’s a sermon full of confusion and contradiction, and I want to warn you beforehand that it starts that way and just keeps going. Fifteen minutes from now, I’m going to sound just as uncertain as I did at the beginning. It’s not the kind of sermon that clarifies or offers insight – other than an insight into what it feels like to live in the tension of opposing spiritual demands. That’s too bad, because I like the other kind of sermon – the kind where I’m pretty sure I’m right about something – and both of my previous sermons were that kind. This one, as I say, is not.