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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Feel free to use what is helpful from these sermons. We only ask that when substantial portions are abstracted or used in a written work, please credit Seekers Church and the author, and cite the URL.
Dan Phillips: Song Sermon
September 14, 2003
Our Seekers’ experience with music has been as ambiguous as everything else we do: we have enjoyed great music, and yet not made music as much a part of our worship as it is in other churches; we have embraced silence at the expense of music. From the objective measure of the number of minutes that we spend singing versus the number of minutes that we spend in worship not singing, music is less important in Seekers than it has been in any other church I have ever been in.
Pat Conover: Making God Manifest
September 07, 2003
Who needs salvation anyhow? I recognize that atonement is the wrong answer to a dumb question. I recognize that the questions about life after death and questions about the end of the world by supernatural act are distractions from attending to and celebrating the life we have.
Alan Dragoo: Recovery
August 31, 2003
Today, I want to celebrate my recovery from a brain cancer with you. Although I have been cancer-free for a year and a half, I know that I am not free from the possibility of its return. Cancer is like the next performer who stands off-stage in the wings waiting to be announced while I do my act. Each day is a gift.
Sandra Miller: 1000 sandwiches
August 17, 2003
It is hard not to shine the spotlight on Natalie. Eighteen years old with two children, and recently married to a man I would guess is in his early thirties. What little I saw of them together seemed good. There were actually two projects going on in her house, and everyone of our group, men and women alike, who encountered her fell in love. Two nights before I got there, she had had two feet of water and sewage in her house, but she never stopped smiling.
Marjory Zoet Bankson: Being Bread
August 03, 2003
A powerful image of the struggle for both perishable and imperishable food was the city dump in Guatemala City, crawling with scavengers who were desperately looking for things to sell so they could buy food and drink each day. The dump was full of perishable goods! Moreover, death seemed as close as the cloud of vultures hanging over the seething mass of garbage and people there. There seemed to be nothing spiritual or eternal about that place.