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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Amelia Bennett: Sew Fine
November 11, 2001
When I am working with my hands, I am oblivious to anything around me. I am unaware of anything except my fabric and how it is acting. This kind of work makes my soul sing. I feel incredibly blessed to have work that gives me that much. There is also something meditative about the rhythm of things like hand sewing hems, which I do a lot of, but I do not thrive on that work. It is what helps me achieve the quality I want to produce and sell. This is part of what I feel you are supporting.
Brenda Seat: A Brokenness that Leads to Joy
November 04, 2001
I found myself with a sledgehammer, and Bill and Steve were showing me where to hit and how to be destructive in the most efficient way. I took a whack, and then another. Soon one side of the wall was coming down. I turned to Kate and Linda, and urged them to try it. Kate was wondering what was wrong with me, but she humored me and took the sledgehammer and began to whack …and she too felt that “something else” in that experience. While we were whacking, banging, and kicking the wall board down, Bill, Steve and Mike were gathering up the debris and carting it away in the wheelbarrows!
Deborah Sokolove: Seeking Peace
October 28, 2001
I have begun a moment-to-moment practice of turning private war into peace. It is a practice I learned many years ago, and somehow manage to forget repeatedly, despite the overwhelming evidence that it works. The practice is this: each time I think of the person with whom I am at odds, even if the thought begins in anger or self-justification, I turn that thought into a prayer for their welfare, their happiness, their peace. I intentionally hold the person in the light, and open my heart to become a channel of God’s love.
Jeanne Marcus: Darker Valleys
October 21, 2001
After September 11, words and actions take on new meanings. Recommitment to this Christian community today feels deeper and more important than before. Our lectionary readings from the prophet Jeremiah point out deeper meanings as well. Jeremiah teaches that when we have to let go of our habitual ways of achieving security and control, we can learn once again that God’s loving presence remains with us always.
David W. Lloyd: Recommitment Tasks
October 14, 2001
On Wednesday the 12th, I went to the Pentagon, in response to a request for volunteers to staff the phones in our agency’s headquarters. My colleagues set up an assistance center in a nearby hotel for the families of those missing after the attack. There was an air of unreality about being in the Pentagon. The smell of smoke was present, though not in our part of the building. Periodically we would look out the windows across the Pentagon courtyard to firefighters standing on the roof of the innermost ring of the building, 6 stories up, directing their hoses to the outermost rings where smoke was still rising.