Sermons

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.

Pat Conover: Belonging

July 20, 1997

If you want to belong to Seekers, then come on in. But if you are messing around, if you are only sampling, if you are testing the waters, if you want to know how it will work out before you take the next step, well then you don’t quite belong. Seekers has some space at the margins. Some folks have stayed on the margins for years. But you get in by coming in, by growing, by ministering.

 

Mollie McMurray and Kate Cudlipp: God’s Mountain — Bring It On Down!

July 13, 1997

Jesus spent his public life challenging aspects of the dominant cultures of his time — Roman and Jewish. The Christian message is that we must not live our lives according to the values and standards of the world, because to do so is to be seduced away from what we know in our hearts — what God has planted there — as true.

 

Dan Phillips: Sandals

July 06, 1997

My father is a Baptist minister. An Independent Baptist minister. For those of you who don’t recognize the distinction, “Independent” means that he considered the Southern Baptist to be too liberal to associate with. To my father and his peers, this text said that God calls men, only men – sorry ladies, to be witnesses to a world that had lost touch with God: to be independent voices of a different set of values.

 

combined Sunday School classes: Sunday School Drama

June 22, 1997

This is your roving reporter, Judith of Jerusalem. We are now entering into the time of one of our holiest of holidays, the Passover, and crowds of people from all over the country are streaming into the city. The priests estimate about 500,000 people will visit the Temple this week. Right now I am standing in the Court of the Gentiles at the Temple.

 

Karen P. Eriksen: A New Creation

June 15, 1997

Those operating out of Stage Three have been socialized into some societal norm. They function conventionally in society, following the rules and norms, living the unexamined life. They understand that others have feelings that differ from themselves. Others’ needs are so well known, that they pay sole attention to them. They do not rock the boat. They accommodate in intimate relationships. They go along with the program in organizations. I think the choice to be part of Seekers represents some position beyond Stage Three, to break with conventions we grew up with. According to Kegan, most adults function primarily out of Stage Three.