Pentecost didn’t happen only once. The noise intensified. The joy palpable. Community present. A community that had just met. A community that came from different countries and different walks of…
Lectionary blog for May 20 Pentecost Sunday Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 104:24-34; 35b; Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 Today is a day that the church sets aside to pay particular attention…
A few years ago, advertiser-turned-pastor Shane Hipps juxtaposed two stories about cellphones. In one story, he and his brother sped from the airport toward their dying mother. Cellphones allowed them…
Sometimes I meet Christians who make me nervous with their absolute certainty that God is directing every single moment of their lives—both the profound and the mundane. Not only does…
Lectionary blog for June 4 Pentecost Sunday Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34; 1 Corinthians 12:3-13; John 20:19-23 In his book When I Relax I Feel Guilty, wilderness ministry pioneer and motivational…
Pentecost is an annual wake-up call that reminds us that the language of faith is always evolving. Open to the Spirit, we are always proclaiming Christ’s word in new ways….
At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit showed up with sound and force like the wind. Those present saw what seemed to be tongues like fire. In this powerful way, the Spirit…
Lectionary blog for May 15, 2016 Day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Romans 8:14-17; John 14:8-17 25-27> A few years ago, USA Today had a piece about the…
Here between Easter and Pentecost, our church finds itself in something of an interim time. It is, as poet and philosopher John O’Donohue reminds us, a time when the old…
How would we behave if we truly believed we had been so clothed?
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