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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Carolyn D. Shields: To Seekers, with Love
May 18, 2003
I spent my adolescence struggling with anxiety and panic disorder. While the panic attacks themselves were violent, the phobia I developed around the hourly possibility of having a panic attack was more destructive. Even though I am now almost 35 years old, and a full thirteen years have passed since I finally got help and learned to live a normal life again, I have still not fully integrated the meaning of the panic into my life. I find I keep asking the question, “What role did it play then, and now?”
Marian Seat: Finding Myself
May 11, 2003
Graduation: a time of smiles, funny hats, parties, short summers and dramatic conclusions. As a high school student you look forward to this day from the second day of your freshman year. Graduation is a sign of freedom, from here on out, adults consider you an adult and you finally get some of that respect that everyone has been talking about for so long. Yep, it is awesome. It is just great. Dandy, even.
David W. Lloyd: The End of the World Has Come! Hallelujah!
April 27, 2003
Jesus and the other apocalypticists believed that the Kingdom of God would be a real, physical kingdom on earth, not just in heaven where God already ruled, and not just a kingdom in our hearts, either. He uses real down to earth language – people eat, drink and talk in the Kingdom, the disciples will sit on thrones in the kingdom, power will be exercised in the Kingdom.
Deborah Sokolove: Threatened with Resurrection
April 20, 2003
These last many months, as the drumbeats of war grew ever louder, I have thought a lot about pain and suffering, about life and death and resurrection. Now, just this week, we are told that the war in Iraq is pretty much over. Is it only a coincidence that war and winter dragged on all through Lent and that now we can celebrate the coming of spring, the ending of war and Christ’s resurrection all at once?
David W. Lloyd: On Taking Up the Cross
March 16, 2003
Am I a follower of Jesus? My inability to surrender my life freely to Christ, to offer my death for his sake and for the sake of the gospel, makes my answer “no.” When I look into my heart I am pretty sure that I cannot take up the public humiliation of the cross. I have a lot of time and energy invested in avoiding public humiliation, and for that matter, private humiliation. I have a lot of status: my sex as male, my race as white, my nationality as an American, my education, my job, my wealth. Some of this status I can’t give up and some I won’t give up. In addition, there is my fear of death.