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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Courageous Loving During Hateful Times by Kolya Braun-Griener
February 23, 2025
Seventh Sunday After the Epiphany
When I read that “love your enemies” was the gospel message for this week, I thought, “Oh my God, help me with this one.”
Richard Rohr’s reflections on the metaphor of the Cosmic Egg caught my imagination this week. Within this “Egg” are the nested domes of my story, our story, and other stories, and the fourth being the big story of cosmic universe story. His metaphor of the spheres of being, nesting within one another inspired me to frame my sermon along similar lines as a way of looking at 3 contexts for the transforming power of courageous love in troubling times: Us – Them – and We.
Black History Month by Larry Rawlings
February 16, 2025
Sixth Sunday After the Epiphany
Black History Month begins in Chicago during the summer of 1915 when Carter G. Woodson traveled from Washington, D.C. to participate in a national celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of emancipation sponsored by the state of Illinois. Thousands of African Americans travelled from across the country to see exhibits highlighting the progress their people had made since the destruction of slavery. An overflow crowd of six to twelve thousand waited outside for their turn to view the exhibits. Inspired by the three-week celebration, Woodson decided to form an organization to promote the scientific study of black life and history saying “We are going back to that beautiful history and it is going to inspire us to greater achievements.” He sent out a press release announcing Negro History Week in February, 1926.
Let Down Your Nets by Paul Holmes
February 9, 2025
Fifth Sunday After the Epiphany
Luke 5:1-11
They were bone tired. They had worked all night and had caught almost nothing, and then along came this guy, who wasn’t even a fisherman, and he urged them to again let down their nets. Even though they knew it was totally futile, these future disciples did as Jesus asked, and were rewarded with more fish than their nets could hold.
Sermon for Seekers Church by Mary Mehala
February 2, 2025
Fourth Sunday After the Epiphany
Good morning, Seekers. This was a tough week I tell you. I am looking forward to taking David and Marji’s class because in these deeply troubling times my spirit is so grieved, that I need help to see Jesus, and to grow in my understanding of the spirit of God. If I am going to remain faithful to the end and trust God in all things, I need help, because like Daniel I want to stand and walk in the fire, and like Daniel I cannot walk alone.
Seekers Church Talk by Adam Greene
January 19, 2025
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
[The following is from a transcript of what Adam said from the pulpit]
So I haven’t given too many talks like this. And I tend to not want to do it reading. And so what’s going to come out? I’m not entirely sure, but there’s a lot of kind of different things floating around.
I have very present that we’re having an inauguration tomorrow. And incidentally, I spoke for Eighth Day, the day just before the election. So it seems like I’ve had the opportunity to be in a little bit of a crucible when giving these talks, and from a certain point of view, I could say that there’s a lot of complexity, there’s a lot of different things that I want to to say, but in a certain way, it feels like that complexity is a little bit of an illusion, in the sense that … I had an experience last night like, I’m like waiting for it to sort of click right? “What am I going to talk about?” And I’m not even sure how I’m going to put it into words. But the experience was: it was simple. There was a kind of a deep love which I recognized that has always been there. A lot of dreams were coming back to me that I realized I had had. And it was almost like, you know, a lock. When you put a key into a lock, there’s a lot of different gears—right?—in the lock sometimes, and it’s just sort of a matter of turning it and it opens. That is kind of what happened to me last night. And I guess, you know, now I’ll sort of get into some particular details and so see where we go with this.