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: From Fear to Risk to Hope
December 22, 1996
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.
Seekers Youth Clowns: Star Search
December 15, 1996
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.
Pat Conover: From Fear to Hope
December 08, 1996
We have no choice other than to trust the mystery, to follow what we see in part. We do not stand where God stands, cannot know what is only God’s to know. We follow Jesus when we embrace what is life-giving, what is eternal, even if we are misunderstood, rewarded with a shameful, painful and unjust death, separated from those we love. The saving truth is not a doctrinal statement of the unknowable but a trust that embracing, without reservation, loving, just, true and beautiful, a sufficient link to God to last a lifetime, a joy that death cannot overcome.
Marjory Zoet Bankson: The Dream
December 01, 1996
What if you had a dream last night that this was the last day of the world. And what if, on your way to church, you learned that other people in your household had had the same dream? And suppose, during coffee hour, you learned that other people here had also had that dream? Would you think that this might be the last day of the world? And what would you do if this was the very last day of the world?
Peter Bankson: Goats, Sheep, And Pastor-Prophets
November 24, 1996
For most of us, “understanding and implementing Christian servanthood in the structures in which we live our lives” does not look much like Good Shepherd Ministry, or Christ House. We work in homes with our own children; at the Department of Justice, or Defense, or State; in organizations devoted to international development, or lawmaking — as staff for members of Congress or advocates for those in need.