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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Muriel Lipp: Doubting Thomas and Believing John
April 22, 2001
Prayer has been my favorite channel to God. However, I have had my difficulties with prayer, particularly when our children were small. I tried to pray each day at 7:00. That was supposed to be before the children got up. Nevertheless, they got up any old time. If I told them to be quiet — I was praying — it made little difference. I took my problem to Gordon. He said, set your time, and whatever goes on in that time is prayer, and at the end of the time, it is “amen,” and you have prayed. It is amazing how that satisfied me. I do not know if it satisfied God.
Marjory Zoet Bankson: While It Was Still Dark …
April 15, 2001
Jesus proclaimed the “Year of the Lord”. It was a Jubilee claim — to feed the hungry, cloth the naked and release the captives. Then he called Mary Magdalene and his disciples to continue his Jubilee ministry when he was gone. That is what the church is for — to change the way things are done — to heal the sick, house the homeless and protect all beings at the edge of society — to be a witness for another way. When Jesus called Mary Magdalene by name in the garden, he was also calling us to a ministry of renewal and restoration in our day.
Marjory Zoet Bankson: The Stones Would Shout
April 08, 2001
The stones are shouting! Trees and rivers, birds and fish are shouting their cry of rage and pain! Do we have ears to hear or will we wave our palms in some silly reenactment of a bygone day and let them cry in vain? Psalms about the “cedars of Lebanon” remind us of the magnificent forests that are gone forever because our ancestors did not curb their appetites for wood until it was gone, seed, soil and climate change.
Seekers Clowns: Seekers Under Construction
April 01, 2001
The clown skit was mostly improvised, this is the broad outline.
Deborah Sokolove: All Things New
March 25, 2001
In the Jewish mystical system known as the Kaballah, the the broken-ness of the world does not depend on Adam and Eve eating the fruit. Rather, when God created the universe, it was to be a vessel for containing the Shekhinah, the glory of God. However, when God tried to put the Shekhinah into the vessel, it was too powerful, and the vessel shattered into countless glittering shards. The unity of God’s own self was broken. It is the task of humans, the Kabbalists say, to find those shining shards, to repair the vessel that is the broken world, to restore the unity of God.