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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The Questions Before Us by Erica Lloyd
The Seventh Sunday of Easter
May 17, 2026
364 days ago, Jeanne Marcus stood in this pulpit and invited us on a journey. This invitation was, quote ”into a process and event that might encourage a period of Beginner’s Mind about our community. It’s an invitation into a conversation about ‘The Call—and the Future—of Seekers Church.’”
This process, what we now refer to as the Call to Evolve, began even before that sermon, when Jeanne had approached SLT, unaware that they had already been mulling over similar ideas for some time. They hatched the idea of a community-wide event, and with the Stewards’ blessing, Jeanne, John Morris, Ellie Benedict, and Mary Mehala started planning. In the process, they posed some questions to us as a community:
Action in Montgomery by Elizabeth Bernal-Amick
The Sixth Sunday of Easter
May 10, 2026
Hi everyone! My name is Elizabeth, and I’m a community organizer with Action in Montgomery. Thank you so much for having me today.
While I share my story with you, I’d love for you to sit with a question in your mind: when did you realize that social justice mattered to you? Who taught you that? Was it a moment, a person, an experience?
At the end, I’ll ask two or three of you to share your answer. So keep it in the back of your mind.
Let me start at the beginning.
Jenny’s Tree by Joan Dodge
The Fifth Sunday of Easter
May 3, 2026
Joan summarized some stories about trees from children’s books that she has loved. Then she talked about a tree that was originally planted in a large pot on the balcony, where her little daughter, Jenny, watered it faithfully. When Jenny died at the age of three, Joan and her husband Doug moved the sapling to Dayspring, where it flourishes as a memorial. The photograph at right shows what Jenny’s tree looks like now. The text of Joan’s Word is not yet available.
The Good Shepherd by Elizabeth Gelfeld
The Fourth Sunday of Easter April 26, 2026 The gospel reading we just heard, the first ten verses of John 10, is Jesus’ introduction to one of his “I am” statements. He is teaching his disciples, using the metaphor of a sheepfold and its gate, which is the legitimate way to enter the sheepfold, and he says that he is the gate. They don’t understand, so he continues. I’m going to read verses 9 through 14, from the New International Version. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I…
Burning Hearts: The Inner Work by Marjory Bankson
A sermon for 8th Day Community on the Third Sunday of Easter
April 19, 2026
Text: Luke 24:13-35 … Walk to Emmaus
Let me begin with a question: How do you know when somebody loves you?
Actions speak louder than words, do they not? No words can cover up a deep feeling of connection — or a deep feeling of distrust. Our bodies know – register feelings – guide our behavior. Our feelings can tell us when we are in a safe place – or not.
But most of us have learned to disconnect from our feeling center, and instead, to live a divided life – functioning in a competent and self-contained way even when we are grieving or afraid. We look for causes – or cures – rather than feeling the helpless terror of an unknown threat.
I find myself doing that a lot these days, as we careen in and out of war and economic disaster. That is simply the environment we live in – eerily similar to the world in which Jesus lived and died.