With Pentecost behind us, the Church leaves the festival season that began with Advent/Christmas/Epiphany and was shortly followed by Lent/Easter/Pentecost. But there are images from Pentecost that linger with me and ask important questions of us as a community as we move into the long summer season the Church calls “Time After Pentecost,” or “ordinary … Continue reading Message: Pastor’s Newsletter Article: June, 2010
Sermon: Sunday, May 23, 2010: Day of Pentecost
Texts: Genesis 11:1-9 • Psalm 104:24-34, 35b • Acts 2:1-21 • John 14:8-17, (25-27) Back at the end of the first week of March, I attended the spring meeting of the Conference of Bishops which was held out in Itasca. I was there with a delegation of pastors and lay people to observe their … Continue reading Sermon: Sunday, May 23, 2010: Day of Pentecost
Message: Diverse by Design…
Pentecost Sunday is the culmination of a season of readings from Acts in which the early church is confronted over and over again with the radical diversity the Holy Spirit embraces - from Peter's encounter with Cornelius to Paul's encounter with Lydia, the book of Acts gives us story after story about the boundary breaking … Continue reading Message: Diverse by Design…
By Proclamation 