Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Seattle Mennonite Church is an active Anabaptist Mennonite Christian congregation working faithfully at following Jesus in our urban context. All are welcome! Listen in to our Sunday morning sermons to get a sense of who we are.
Seattle Mennonite Church Sermons
Sacred Places & Spiritual Batteries
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SMC preachers
Solomon sets out to build a house for God, as people across time and place have done over and over again. But even in the dedication prayer, Solomon acknowledges that God cannot be contained by a building, regardless of size or grandness or even how delicious it smells. Just as Pastor Megan’s delicious-smelling cedar chest could never contain her bounty of beautiful quilts, so too Solomon’s cedar temple could never contain the enormity of God. Houses for God have never been about or for God, so much as they are for a people, seeking to create sacred spaces for living in relationship with one another and God; a people seeking to recharge their spiritual batteries.
Sermon begins at minute marker 5:42
1 Kings 5.1-5, and 8.27-30, 41-43
Resources
- BibleWorm podcast: Episode 609 – Dedicating the Temple, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr
- Rainer Maria Rilke, “Ich bin, du Ängtlicher. Hörst do mich nicht,” from Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, 66.
- Image: rendering of quilts stacked at SMC during our Jubilee celebration, 2018.
- Voices Together Hymn 647 There is a Balm in Gilead. Text & Music: African American Spiritual (USA) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.