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.
Carolyn D. Shields: Transformation through Healing
August 19, 2001
I remember asking my uncle, a Lutheran pastor, why we didn’t have a statue of Jesus hanging on the cross at the front of our church. He replied proudly, “Because we are people of the resurrection, not the crucifixion.” I took that in, thinking that somehow, Lutherans were superior to Catholics because of this distinction. However, when I was living every day with chronic pain, I often thought of Jesus’ wounded body hanging on the cross. Maybe it is to remind us that we are embodied people as much as we are spirit people. We are of the resurrection, but we are of the crucifixion, too.
Jeanne Marcus: Between Memory and Vision
August 12, 2001
Hebrews 11 helps us firmly plant our lives between memory and vision, drawing strength and guidance from both. It reminds us that we are spiritual descendants of a line of people who have repeated heard God’s promises and responded boldly. It offers images and visions that can animate and shape us. Hope invites us to create a new reality by acting as if those visions are now inevitable.
Kate Cudlipp: Generosity
August 05, 2001
An enemy of generosity is a worldly sense of “fairness.” My father used to shake his head when parable of the laborers in the vineyard came up in the Episcopal lectionary. “I’ll never agree with that one,” he would say. His need for fairness outweighed any consideration of the generosity of the employer.
Pat Conover: Jesus as the Center and Meaning of History
July 29, 2001
Many of the sermons from this pulpit are testimony based sermons rather than scripturally based sermons. In particular, it seems to me that we do not ground many sermons in a common effort to understand and follow Jesus. Given my image of preaching and conversation in Seekers, you can see why I think we need some more Jesus talk.
Moving in the Spirit Dance Company: Frayed Grace
July 15, 2001 Spirit’s Apprentice Corporation, from Atlanta performed “Frayed Grace” as part of their summer tour. Their website is http://www.seekerschurch.dreamhosters.com/sermons/ http://www.mitsdance.org.