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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Jim Dickerson: Call and Corporate Mission
July 16, 2000
One of our biggest struggles has been what I call the “week day Church vs. the Sunday Church”. We have a full house and many activities going on 7 days per week. Over the years and at various times, the weekday and Sunday church has grown apart with only a few of us working to keep the two connected. In the Shaw neighborhood, it is estimated that 80% of the members of Churches there come from outside the neighborhood, further promoting a sense of isolation and estrangement between them and the “bad” neighborhood around them.
Ronald Arms: Married to Amazement
July 09, 2000
I have celebrated Easter by listening to the musical “Man of La Mancha”. In the play, the Knight of Mirrors confronts Don Quixote and he too must struggle with who he is. The act of leaving as well as being sent out brings us face to face with the Knight of Mirrors. We can vainly use a mirror to see how pretty we look. On the other hand, we can wisely use it to adjust whatever is out of place, perhaps to pick out the spinach we have between our teeth. Another option is to use it to go beyond our body and our thoughts and ask again, “Who am I?”
Brenda Seat: Call as Being and Doing
July 02, 2000
Call is about doing. But what I have learned from Dr. Seuss and Mack the Turtle, from Jairus’ daughter and from this woman who touched Jesus’ robe, is that we need to awake and aware of God’s call to be all we were intended to be, and then the doing is joyful, rich and fulfilling, not sacrificial. Our theme for Pentecost is “There is no one but us,” but if we are all that God intended us to be, then that is enough!
Marjory Zoet Bankson: Sonya Dyer – Completing a Call
June 25, 2000
Sonya’s vision and call for being church has shaped our life together for nearly 25 years. Now we come to bid her “farewell” as she completes her call to the staff of Seekers Church and begins a new journey with Manning that will take them to North Carolina.
Deborah Sokolove: Hineni: Here I Am
June 18, 2000
Last week, I went to a Mass at the African American church. I arrived early, and as I sat in a back pew, a middle-aged man in wash pants and open-collared short-sleeved shirt began to set things up. As his tasks took him to the back of the church, he greeted each of the few people who were talking animatedly amongst themselves. Seeing me sitting alone, he stopped to chat a little, suggesting that I move forward a row, so that I would be under one of the ceiling fans. It was only when the entry procession started that I realized this man was not just a friendly “pillar of the community,” but rather the deacon, now in vestments appropriate to his liturgical function.