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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Pat Conover: Surviving or Living
August 21, 2005
The passage from Matthew harshly instructs me to treat an unrepentant offender as my enemy. How do these instructions fit with “If your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink; for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads.” The notion of overcoming evil with good appeals to me, but that by doing so is the equivalent of heaping coals on the heads of evildoers is rather, hmm barbaric.
Anna Gilcher: Deeper into the Dance
August 14, 2005
I would propose that what Jesus and the Canaanite woman are doing is, in a manner of speaking, dancing together. They are both willing to dance, and they are both changed by the dance.
Deborah Sokolove: Wading into Deep Water
July 31, 2005
This is not to say that the crucifixion and resurrection were not important to early Christians, but rather that other images captured their visual imaginations. Where Christ is pictured, it is often as the Good Shepherd, the one who carries the lost sheep to safety on his shoulders. One of the most frequently seen images in early Christian art is that of people at table, usually with representations of bread and fish, and sometimes wine.
David W. Lloyd: The Treasure of the Cross
July 24, 2005
Not only can the cross bridge the gulf, but it can do so without casting aspersion on the other side. Each side can lay claim to the Cross without having to say that its belief is right and the other wrong, that its theology is the good theology and the other side’s theology is bad, or that its believers live out their theology more faithfully and with more good result than the believers on the other side.
Doug Wysockey-Johnson: Seeds of Needs
July 10, 2005
There has been an dialogue going on in my head this week with 3 characters. One person in the dialogue represents the particulars of my life; that person is me. Another represents events of the world; that person represented by a Sudanese woman in Dafur whose 18 year old son has been murdered, and she has been raped. The third person is the sower from Matthew, scattering all those seeds. My sermon this morning simply invites you into that dialogue..