Sermons

Lucy Slater

December 15, 2024

Third Sunday of Advent

It has been at least five years (or since I joined Seekers)  since we last examined our domestic and international giving principles and guidelines.  During  that time, the REJMT was created, and we conducted a whole season, examining racism and white supremacy during Lent this year. As part of that ongoing liturgy, I preached a sermon on reparations, and called for us to have a conversation on how Seekers considers institutional racism and reparations in our giving programs.…

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Jeanne Marcus

December 8, 2024

Second Sunday of Advent

Good morning.

I requested a pretty unusual introduction this morning, one that includes my maternal lineage, as a way to create expectations what this sermon will be about this morning.  There’s some hints that we may touch on women’s presence in scripture, including mothers and birth; and  maybe something about women’s lineage.  We’ll see.…

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John Hassell and Glenn Clark

December 1, 2024

First Sunday of Advent

John Hassell

Good morning.  Please pray or sing with me:

Blessed Assurance, Jesus is mine

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine,

Heir of salvation, purchase of God

Born of God’s goodness, washed in God’s love.

This is my story, this is my song

Praising my savior, all the day long

This is my story, this is my song

Praising my savior, all the day long.

Today is World AIDS Day.

In 1988, a group of AIDS activists established World AIDS Day when they went to the World Health Organization to make the day official in order to raise awareness about HIV and to remember the millions who had already died from HIV related illnesses. …

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Mary Mehala

November 24, 2024

Reign of Christ

I breathed and finally surrendered to the longing to write something that could speak to my heart, which I hope will speak to yours, too. I pray these words are a light to those who long to see and oil to those who long to find hope.

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Telling the deeper truth: “The Reign of Christ.” What story will I share with you this morning? Shall I tell my story, my history? Or shall I borrow a history as I imagine it to be, a story from long ago, of an America once billowing with green trees, brown hays, soft winds, and sweet fruit from the land not yet soiled by blood, the blood of those who cherished, ate, loved, belonged, hoped, and spirited?…

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Erica Lloyd

November 17, 2024

Twenty-sixth Sunday after Pentecost

I often start my sermons off with some kind of disclaimer, and this one is no different: when I agreed to preach a few weeks ago, my focus was entirely on how to frame our discussion, and it somehow did not occur to me that this would also be in the aftermath of the election. I feel profoundly ill-equipped to be preaching in this context.

But maybe today’s lectionary is of help. Jesus talks of power, of wars. These were, I imagine, topics that provoked some anxiety among the disciples. “When will this happen?”…

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