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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Peter Bankson: The Fruit of the Vine is Food for the Gardner
May 28, 2000
Last Sunday during the Children’s Word about the vine and the branches, Joan asked, “Why do you suppose God wants us to bear much fruit?” Andy answered: “To be food for the gardener.” I heard in his answer a profound statement about co-creation and our relationship to God.
Sherri Alms: The Wilderness, the Eunuch, and One Nun
May 21, 2000
This miracle is my friendship with a woman from El Salvador named Isabel, who is also the nun in the sermon title. Isabel has been not only a very good friend but also my student and my teacher. When I decided to volunteer at Academy of Hope, an organization in my neighborhood that offers adult literacy education, I was set on teaching a class. The volunteer coordinator could not find a class at a time that I could teach. Grudgingly, I listened as Jennifer said, “But I’ve found the perfect student for you to tutor.” As soon as Isabel and I met, we hit it off. We are both extroverted, talkative and bullheaded. I was to learn when we had our fights, Isabel was usually right.
Dan Phillips: The Party
May 14, 2000
The servants were stunned. All of them surreptitiously had some of the wine at the first opportunity, and it was good. Jesus’ friends, of course, had been some of the first to try the new wine, and they too were stunned. It was great wine, and as they drank, they compared their views of what happened. The verdict: Jesus was good! It was a miracle. They were looking forward to following this holy man! Anyone who could turn water into wine was all right by them.
Marjory Zoet Bankson: Resurrection!
April 23, 2000
Resurrection is not so much about what happened to the body of Jesus as it is about what happens in our bodies when we open ourselves to God. Resurrection quickens the heart when hope has dimmed and love has died.
Kate Cudlipp: What is Given and What is Asked
April 16, 2000
We know nothing more about the centurion, but something in him changed because of his paying attention to the one he was helping crucify. How many others were witnesses and saw only what they expected to see: another “enemy of the people” dispatched? Like the photographs on exhibit at a museum in New York recently with pictures of lynchings in this country in the early part of the twentieth century: the crowds were festive, celebrating the “just desserts” of those they could not see as human.