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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Deborah Sokolove: Thinking About Commitment
October 05, 1997
As a person who has been divorced twice, and is now at last happily married, I would rather not deal with a teaching that seems to say that remarriage is the same as adultery. But since it is in the lectionary this week, it is better to talk about it than to read it aloud in church (or silently by ourselves) and then pretend we had not noticed.
Ken Burton: A View From the Threshold
September 28, 1997
In 1992, I visited Seekers for the first time. This was something of a homecoming, since I written a paper about the church for a Sociology of Religion course. I instantly felt at home here. This is remarkable for me. It often takes me a long time to feel at home in new surroundings. My comfort was due in part to the warmth with which I was received and the sense of love embodied that seemed to appear and reappear in interactions of Seekers with one another and in the larger life of the community. I had been a Quaker for twenty years and had experienced this sense of community in that context, but never with the consistency and intensity found here. I fell in love with Seekers!
Ronald Arms: Broken and Dirties
September 21, 1997
A North American Christian writes, “A couple years ago, I spent a month in Asia, mostly with people who had servants. And I didn’t like what I saw. It gave me a sense of what servant living would be like. Servants are people who run in from the next room to get the salt for you because it’s a foot out of your reach. They wash your dirty underwear by hand. Sometimes they sleep in a closet or on the floor in the hall. Jesus talked a lot about being a servant, but it’s not a job I’d ever want.”
Marjory Zoet Bankson: The Inward Journey
September 14, 1997
At camp, it was ok to be on the “inward journey” — to love starry nights singing by campfire. A perfect time to read of the early church, but no one at St James Presbyterian talked about the mystics in our tradition. Another teenage theophany developed in the mortuary where I practiced the pipe organ… the church was unheated and the mortuary was warm. “Why do bad things happen to good people?” I had a lively sense of Spirit and could have learned to listen for Wisdom if someone had thought to take my inward journey seriously. Do you remember the starting point for your conscious spiritual journey?
David W. Lloyd: Core Learning
September 07, 1997
Core learnings are those things at the center of my life that I have learned through experience. We also have core learnings as a church: fundamental things and that bind us together as a congregation, that guide us in how to act with each other and with the world, and help us understand who we are as members of this local expression of the Body of Christ.