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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Sandra Miller: 1000 sandwiches
August 17, 2003
It is hard not to shine the spotlight on Natalie. Eighteen years old with two children, and recently married to a man I would guess is in his early thirties. What little I saw of them together seemed good. There were actually two projects going on in her house, and everyone of our group, men and women alike, who encountered her fell in love. Two nights before I got there, she had had two feet of water and sewage in her house, but she never stopped smiling.
Marjory Zoet Bankson: Being Bread
August 03, 2003
A powerful image of the struggle for both perishable and imperishable food was the city dump in Guatemala City, crawling with scavengers who were desperately looking for things to sell so they could buy food and drink each day. The dump was full of perishable goods! Moreover, death seemed as close as the cloud of vultures hanging over the seething mass of garbage and people there. There seemed to be nothing spiritual or eternal about that place.
Peter Bankson and Jeffrey P. Silverstone: A Pilgrimage to Guatemala
July 27, 2003
Last week ten Seekers were in Guatemala, as part of the Faith@Work pilgrimage, climbing some hills of our own, opening ourselves to others and receiving the gifts of the Maya people. It was a time of many surprises – dare I say miracles?
Marjory Zoet Bankson: Experiencing the Kin-Dom of God
July 06, 2003
Religious folk today emphasize the hard work of loving ourselves so that we can love others. But we cannot learn to love ourselves in a vacuum. We need small groupings in which we see ourselves. Family is not enough because with children, we do not meet as peers. Paul preached about becoming the body of Christ because it is impossible to practice loving alone. He knew that without community, we never learn the effort and intention needed to love ourselves or our neighbors!
Pat Conover: Parables and the Basilea
June 29, 2003
The Gospel of Mary, like the ends to the stories of Daniel, of Job, of several of the minor prophets, of several of the books in the apocrypha, of the latter chapters of the synoptic gospels, of the Gospel of John, found also in the writings of Paul and of the Revelation of John and of numerous apocalyptic writings that did not make it into the biblical canon, move this anger and revenge theme from the realm of guerilla warfare and political maneuvering into a spiritual realm with the payoff either after death or after the end-of-the-world. This apocryphal transition solves the emotional problem of deep disappointment from the death of Jesus through the official shame of the cross and the genocide of Jerusalem that ended the growing revolt against the Romans.