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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Kate Cudlipp: Taking Hold and Letting Go
September 06, 1998
Our lives are not lives of scarcity; they are ones of abundance. The challenge of letting go for us, in this country and at this time, is not to turn our backs on the abundance and see scarcity as the plight of humanity but to learn to hold what we have lightly — with open hands.
Deborah Sokolove: What is Truth?
August 23, 1998
The center of Jesus’ teaching was not, after all, a set of postulates to be believed. Jesus taught through parables, stories that probably weren’t factual, but that contained a deeper kind of truth about the human condition and about the nature of God. It seems to me that this is the way to read the Bible as a whole, especially, perhaps, the Gospels.
Pat Conover: Covenant and Community
August 16, 1998
I’ve been meaning to preach this sermon for a couple of years. It starts from my concern that Seekers makes a lot of use of the word community. When Seekers was renaming itself a few years ago, I was for including the word in our official name. I invested a big hunk of my thirties in the creation of an intentional Christian community named Shalom Community. So I clearly like the word community. … And I am unsatisfied and hope to lure you into similar dissatisfaction.
Elisabeth Dearborn: Razing Barns
August 02, 1998
Once, during those years, when I was sitting in meeting for Worship, I saw a pair of dusty and sandalled feet and began to quake. My eyes traveled up the unmistakably masculine calves until I came to the hem of the garment. There they rested and I shook with the fire of the Holy Spirit. I knew again that in the gut unmistakable knowing — that I was being given a message about my life.
Annamarie White: Prayer and Prophecy
July 26, 1998
He stood up and started to go. The moon shone down upon the back of his tee shirt and jeans and his feet shuffled soundlessly through the ivy groundcover in my backyard. I jumped up and said, “Wait!” “Do you know that passage in Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov where Christ comes to talk with the Grand Inquisitor?” He turned and looked at me with amusement. “Now Annamarie, if Christ was willing to talk to the least of these fictional characters, how much more does he want to talk with you!”