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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.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4136 {margin-left: -2em; }.wp-show-posts-columns#wpsp-4136 .wp-show-posts-inner {margin: 0 0 2em 2em; } A youngster…had asked a spontaneous question during a church service… The child was standing on the chancel steps with other boys and girls who had come forward for the children’s sermon. Before [the preacher] had spoken her first words to them, the boy asked, “What does the voice of God sound like? Prophecy is remarkably mundane and ordinary. Prophecy is simply reminding ourselves and one another that present choices always produce consequences. We make choices, and our choices make a difference. And whilst we have the opportunity our gracious God invites us to choose life that we may live. It is boring to keep a diary, to write only of the events of the day. This journal has been much deeper than that, but so often only when I was in some kind of pain. Why write when things are going well? And yet — it is a way to pray, a way to put on paper what I need to say to God, praise and thanksgiving, blessings for those I love, and those I don’t even know yet, those who are far away, or close at hand, and suffering. The guidance I get from this scriptural work is that it is all right to buy a building as long as we are not seduced by the process or the outcome. We must not pick a building that smacks of triumphalism, of identity with the dominant political and economic classes. We must not try to build a temple that fixes God in one place and draws all our attention inward. Scene: Overhead sign reads “Crestar Bank”, altar becomes loan officer’s desk, with nameplate, stapler, papers, etc. A few feet away is a second overhead sign reading “ATM”, where Sol is standing, conducting a transaction with several grocery bags at his feet. Elizabeth is working busily at the desk when 3 kings enter. Deborah Sokolove: What does the Voice of God Sound Like?
January 19, 1997
Reverend Dow Chamberlain: What Happened When You Were Baptized?
January 12, 1997
Deborah Sokolove: A Seekers Year
December 29, 1996
Pat Conover: From Fear to Risk to Hope
December 22, 1996
Seekers Youth Clowns: Star Search
December 15, 1996