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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Parable of Halloween Candy by Brenda Seat
August 3, 2025
Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
Brenda shared “Parable of Halloween Candy,” a sermon for all ages based based on Luke 12:13-21.
Street Sense Stories with support from Roy Barber and Leslie Jacobson
July 27, 2025
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Street Sense offered the word this Sunday. Street Sense elevates voices on poverty issues and creates economic opportunities for people experiencing homelessness. With support from Roy Barber and Leslie Jacobson, a group of Street Sense vendors told their stories in song and spoken word. Street Sense is also a biweekly newspaper sold on the street by the vendors as a means of support.
Seeing Clearly by Erica Lloyd
July 20, 2025
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
Open our hearts, open our eyes, that we may see you, each other, and ourselves more clearly.
First things first: for those of you who read the revised common lectionary during the week, you may have noticed we didn’t read the Amos passage. I was one of those people who said, preachers, if there’s a tough scripture in the lectionary PLEASE talk about it because we don’t want silence to be mistaken for consent. But since I’m not going to be referencing it in my sermon today and I am using a passage from Isaiah instead, I asked Celebration Circle if we might swap out the readings.
I’m not spending time with Amos because the Servant Leadership Team gave me a specific invitation for this sermon: to help set the stage in some way for our Day of Prayer and Conversation coming up on September 14th. For those of you who are guests or are new today, we are planning this all-day event to reflect on the last 50 (!!!) years and look to the future. Although much has changed in our world, in our city, and in our own lives, what values do we continue to hold dear? Is God calling us in new directions? How will our inward and outward journeys continue and evolve? These are deep questions that get at the very heart of who we are as a community. This event will give us the chance to reflect on what we’re about – and what we want to be about. This is an opportunity to dream.
Hope Found in the Ditches by Natasha White
July 13, 2025
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
Good morning, Church Family.
It’s an honor to be here today. I want to start with gratitude—for your hearts, your vision, and this season’s theme: “Discovering Our Hope.” It resonates deeply with me because hope has never come easy in my life. But it’s always come—often in unexpected, messy, miraculous ways.
I want to talk today about how I found hope—and how I now spend my life helping others find it, too.
God is Here by Marjory Bankson
July 6, 2025
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
Text: Luke 10:1-11, 16-20
Our gospel text for today begins with Jesus sending out 72 of his followers in pairs to “test the waters” for a later visit by Jesus himself. David has already given us a wonderfully embodied experience of what that might have felt like, so I will focus on the backstory.
In preparing these disciples for their trial run, Jesus gives a series of directions that reveal the values they have experienced together:
- Carry no purse, no bag, and no extra sandals – all things we would normally pack for a trip. Like most poor people, they are to be dependent on the care of others. They will not be set apart by rank or privilege or even self-sufficiency. And remember, Luke says they will be “like lambs in the midst of wolves.” Not a welcoming crowd.