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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Fire by Anna Gilcher
August 19, 2007
In today’s gospel, we get to hear Jesus speaking to his closest friends about what he’s experiencing, what he’s noticing. Fire! Baptism! What stress I am under! Not peace, but division! I get the sense as I read the passage that he’s really excited about what’s going on–he’s really passionate about it–
Holy One, Holy Three by Deborah Sokolove
August 5, 2007
In the midst of this logical thicket, my Systematics professor offered one precious gift, one suggestion of a way out. That was the lovely notion that the essential reality of the three Persons of God is relationship, and that the form of their relationship is perichoresis. This Greek word comes from a root that means “to dance” and a prefix that means “around.” And so we are able to picture the three persons of God not in a fixed, hierarchical relationship, in which orders begin with the First Person, and are transmitted by the Second Person to be carried out by the Third Person; but, rather, that each of the three Persons of God move around one another in an eternal dance, each sometimes leading, each sometimes following, all in perpetual harmony and equality with one another.
I Don’t Care by Pat Conover
July 29, 2007
I woke up later and I said to myself, "I don’t care." And I didn’t. Some days I can’t even read the front page of the Washington Post and I turn directly to the sports section to read about the Cleveland Indians. I don’t want to try to open my heart to yet another tragedy. I don’t want to feel bad about ducking another fight. I don’t want another push to work late or to call and talk with a colleague to encourage them in their work. "I’m tired," I said, just a different kind of tired. I’ve been doing the prophetic work too long. I’m turning toward other callings. And that’s true, but it still boils down to, "I don’t care."
Small Signs of Hope by Kate Cudlipp
July 22, 2007
I find plenty of reasons to despair these days and would love to see some dazzling, believable message that promises, "All will be well!" In looking for such an assurance, however, I’m finding I can be blind to the small, surprising signs of prophetic hope all around.
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.