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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Bokamoso 2019
February 3, 2018
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
Today the young people from Bokamoso again joined us, bringing us songs and stories from their lives in Winterveld, South Africa.
There is no text, but only our joyous memories of their visit and our anticipation of their return next year.
“Indispensable” by John Morris
January 27, 2019
The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
Saturday, January 19th
Our cat Lula is dying. The vet can’t find anything specific wrong with Lula, though she suspects liver disease or possibly a recurrence of a malignancy that resulted in her having one eye removed last year. Mainly, she’s old – at least she acts old; we got her from a shelter ten years ago, so we don’t really know her age. Now she’s all but stopped eating, has lost close to half her body weight, and doesn’t have much interest in anything besides dozing on my lap, or Katie’s. But she’s not in any pain as far as I can tell, nor does she seem uncomfortable. She’s just dying; her flame is turning down lower and lower.
A Sermon on MLK, Compassion, and Racial Sensitivity by Larry Rawlings
January 20, 2019
The Second Sunday after the Epiphany
Good morning. I almost didn’t make it back up here. When I saw Brad and Melody here, I knew that Dakota was downstairs so I went downstairs visit to Dakota. He loves to be held and I didn’t want to let him go but I knew I had to go and come back up here.
A Sermon on Baptism by Cynthia Dahlin
January 13, 2019
The Baptism of Jesus
Good Morning. Today, our gospel reading is from Luke, who describes the scene when Jesus went to the Jordan River to be baptized by John, his cousin. When the ceremony was over, the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus embodied in a dove.
We have completed the Christmas season, and skipped to Jesus’ adulthood—this is his christening—his transition from acting as the son of God to his full ministry; it is his anointing. But what did that baptism really mean?
“Epiphany” by Marjory Bankson
January 6, 2019
The Feast of the Epiphany
Today we celebrate Epiphany, the 12th day of Christmas, and the coming of the wise men with their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Only Matthew tells the story of the wise men, astrologers who were the scientists of the ancient world. It’s an expansion of Isaiah’s prophecy — that foreign rulers would come to honor the Light of God which will arise from this people. From foreign countries, Isaiah says, kings with come with camels, bringing gold and frankincense. To those tangible signs of tribute, Matthew adds myrrh – a healing ointment used for burial. With that addition, Matthew shows his readers the symbols for Jesus’ life, death and resurrection: gold, myrrh and frankincense. I could speak more about Matthew’s midrashic expansion of the Jewish lectionary cycle, but we’ll save that for another day.