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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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.
Story Telling Time: “The Secret Agent” by Edward Hayes, offered by Cynthia Dahlin
June 29, 2025
Third Sunday After Pentecost
Two weeks ago, John Morris told us “…we have a sort of tension here – we have the Word of God as a truth that was there at the beginning, a deep structure of everything that is and could be – but we also have the Word of God as evolving, requiring understanding and interpretation, not the kind of Word we can point to in a piece of scripture and say, “It’s written there, so it must be true.”
A Journey Through 1 Kings 19 by Erin Bush
June 22, 2025
Second Sunday After Pentecost
Thanks so much for having me, Seekers, for my first time bringing the word from this suddenly-rather-intimidating lectern. The good thing about being part of a congregation with an open pulpit is that you know the congregation is full of people who either have done this before, or who might do this in the future, and that’s encouraging somehow.
Our lectionary series has brought us some powerful passages–there are some real bangers this week! Galatians 3, a passage that has said so much to generations of our faith, would be the obvious focus–but instead, I want you to come with me on a journey to the ancient kingdom of Israel, to 1 Kings 19.
The Word, Then and Now by John Morris
June 15, 2024
Trinity
Deborah gave us a sermon a few weeks back called “Listening for the Word of God.” As always, she said so many excellent things that I’m tempted to just reshuffle them and call them my sermon. But I’ll resist, and quote just one statement that really got my attention and led to my volunteering to preach today. Here it is:
“Rather than simply ignoring the parts of the biblical record that today seem immoral, unjust, or downright cruel, we can acknowledge the whole truth of our past and use that knowledge to move forward into a more just, merciful, and inclusive future.”