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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David W. Lloyd: Emmanuel, God is with Us
February 29, 2004
Soon we will be gone. We do not quite know what to expect, what our first few Sunday worship times and meetings will feel like, other than unfamiliar. And I suspect that during those awkward times, when the building doesn’t yet feel like home, our catchword will be “Emmanuel, God is with us.”
Kevin L. Ogle: Reflections on Prayer, Healing and Incarnational Community
February 22, 2004
I was, at age 39, newly in touch with my mortality, and working with the fear that this might be the onset of MS, something that had afflicted my father’s mother in mid-life. No longer taking my physical health for granted, I was aware of my need for healing. As the pain began to recede to background levels, I began to consider the meanings this malady might carry even as I engaged in physical therapy and as I explored alternative treatment modalities to relieve the pain and generate healing for the damaged nerves in my dominant shoulder, arm and hand.
Deborah Sokolove: Blessings
February 15, 2004
How — as a post-feminist, mixed-gender assembly — might we reclaim some of the traditional language of Christianity, that poetic and musical heritage that enshrines outgrown attitudes and yet tugs so powerfully on some of our hearts. Can we learn to drink deeply of the river of life, in which ancient and modern understandings flow together into a mighty, healing stream. Can we learn to sing with the thousand tongues of humankind, knowing that to bless one among us is to bless us all?
David W. Lloyd: Preaching the Word
February 1, 2004
Several weeks ago, our liturgist said that we have an open pulpit because we believe that God’s Word comes through each of us in turn. That caught me by surprise. Do we all believe that God’s Word comes through each member of Seekers Church in turn when that person preaches? What do we do when we do not believe that the sermon we just heard was God’s Word?
Marjory Zoet Bankson: What Does Liberation Look Like?
January 25, 2004
After 2,000 years, we know there are still poor people in despair, captives in bondage to all sorts of things, blind and oppressed people everywhere who would not have the faintest idea what the Jubilee Year of the Lord could possibly be about. Was Jesus then a liar? Was he a lunatic? On the other hand, did Luke mean for us to understand this scripture on human liberation in another way? Does it happen in every generation? Does it happen moment by moment? Does it happen within our souls and outwardly, in the human community? What then does liberation look like?