Tag: Holy Spirit
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What Is Amazing And Perplexing You? – A Pentecost Sermon On Acts 2:1-21
I’m going to begin with a couple of questions that ask you to reflect on your life. Since today is the Feast of Pentecost they are questions about the Holy Spirit in your life. You ready? Here’s my first question. What is amazing you today? I’m talking about the kind of amazement that deepens your Read more
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We Have Some Decisions To Make – A Pentecost Sermon On Acts 2:1-21 And John 20:19-23
We have some decisions to make – as individuals, as a parish, and as a city. They are important decisions, not unlike the decision facing the disciples in today’s gospel (John 20:19-23) I say that in light of and specifically in reference to last Wednesday, May 24th, the first anniversary of the Robb School shooting. Read more
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Our Advocates – A Pentecost Sermon On John 15:26-27; 16:4-15
In today’s gospel Jesus talks about the coming of the Advocate, the Spirit of Truth. What if the Advocate, in whatever ways she or he shows up, comes not to advocate to another on our behalf but to advocate to us on our own behalf? They are truth tellers for us. They call us more… Read more
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Letting Peace Hold Our Wounds – A Pentecost Sermon On John 20:19-23
America is in a hard place these days, and we have been for quite a while. Over the last few months of the coronavirus many have said that we’re all in this together. Yes, but we’re not all together in this. We are not “all together in one place” on this day of Pentecost. Our… Read more
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The Advocate – A Sermon On John 14:15-21
That we need an Advocate to change God’s mind about us just doesn’t fit a God “who so loved the world.” It’s contrary to Jesus saying that he came not to condemn the world but to save, heal, and transform it (John 3:17). “I came,” he says, “that they may have life, and have it… Read more
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Living Under the Influence – A Sermon on Acts 2:1-21 for the Feast of Pentecost
“But others sneered and said, ‘They are filled with new wine.’” They sure looked drunk. They sounded drunk. They acted drunk. But Peter denied it. “We’re not drunk,” he said, “it’s only nine o’clock in the morning.” So which is it? Were they sober as Peter said or were they filled with new wine? (Acts Read more
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Pentecost Makes us Capable of God
There are moments in each of our lives when we begin to hear a new language. It’s new yet echoes with familiarity. We know it through our deepest longings and desires. If fills us with hope, life, and peace. It lies hidden deep within us. It’s always been there but then one day we hear Read more
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A Litany to the Holy Spirit
This Litany to the Holy Spirit was prepared using the traditional form of a litany. The contents of the litany are based on scripture, the Book of Common Prayer, and an Eastern Orthodox prayer to the Holy Spirit. O God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth, Have mercy upon us. O God the Son, Read more
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God’s Conspiracy Gives Life
Jesus “breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:22). Recall a moment when you held another person so close that you could hear his or her breathing, the sound of life. Maybe it was your husband or wife, a parent, your child or grandchild, a dear friend. Cheek to cheek. Read more
Interrupting the Silence 