Tag: Worship

The 19th Sunday after Pentecost

October 4, 2026

We are humans and along with other creatures of God’s creation – we are always learning.  We witness this most greatly in the early years of children, as they learn at an astonishing rate how to move their bodies, how to talk, how to share, and how to experience the world around them. Even as we grow older, we still have opportunities for learning and growing as we adjust to other changing conditions – of our bodies, of our capacities or opportunities for new and deeper awareness or creative expression. We can choose to be life-long learners. …

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The 18th Sunday after Pentecost

September 27, 2026

Good morning

I’m here to talk about my approach to recommitment, as we are in the season of recommitment here at Seekers Church.  But before going there, I have been invited to respond to the earlier questions of what brought me to Seekers and how that has impacted my spiritual life.  Those questions have been the subject of a series of recent sermons and do relate to recommitment. 

Coming to Seekers

Brenda and I finished law school in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1983, and I clerked for a federal judge there for two years. …

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The 17th Sunday after Pentecost

September 20, 2026

At Seekers, we have entered Recommitment Season. This is the period of time leading up to Recommitment Sunday (the third Sunday in October) during which members of Seekers are invited to examine their commitment to Seekers and decide whether they are called to recommit to Seekers for another year. Today I want to talk about what commitment means at Seekers Church and the role mission groups play in commitment.

The first thing I did when I started preparing this sermon was to look back at Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Call to Commitment. She wrote this book in 1963 as a member of the Church of the Saviour, from which Seekers evolved.…

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The 16th Sunday after Pentecost

September 13, 2026

You’ve noticed by now that this morning’s worship has been different, but at the same time recognizably the same to what we do on a typical Sunday morning.      

It’s been the same in that it has been built on the strong bones of a liturgical structure reliably holds our praise, our prayers, our readings, and our reflections each Sunday.

It’s been different most notably in that our readings have included readings from different faith traditions, and come in an unexpected order that has the Gospel reading first. . Maybe not as obviously, many of the prayers offered this morning have been informed by those of other faith traditions as well.…

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The 15th Sunday after Pentecost

September 6, 2026

The opportunity Seekers has given this Summer Season has special meaning for me.  My decision to attend Seekers has been foggy from the start.  This exercise has given me the opportunity to figure some things out. 

First, I want to describe my life history because I found that helps me understand.  I know I am a believer in God, Jesus, and the Holy One.  Never have I questioned this strong belief.  I was born into a Lutheran Church family my father was a pastor.  My mother was a fulltime mother when I was young. …

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