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Wrapped up in love
The Holy Spirit isn’t a fixer – like we’re gangsters who need someone to clean up our mess.
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Love – of One and Three
Dealing with love isn’t just for weddings: it gets to the very nature of God. From the Presiding Bishop’s sermon at the royal wedding last week to the Pentecost itself, we’re finding the very nature of God isn’t out there and other, but right here among, in, the very binding of us together. What actually…
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We are the Medium
The message of Pentecost is about the power of God. But that doesn’t mean what we normally think it means because God’s power isn’t over us, it’s power with us. In Pentecost, both the medium and the message matter Pentecost | Acts 2:1-21 I don’t know if you heard, but there was a big wedding…
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To Widen the Circle
Pentecost, with its loud, violent wind, its flaming tongues, and its utter chaos of voices which resound into a symphony of unity in diversity, is about GOD so utterly changing the game we still aren’t sure how to play it. The Spirit reveals and reconciles Pentecost | Acts 2:1-21 As Jesus ascends, two men appear and…
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Our Pentecost
While we wait for Superman and our friends build bomb shelters a low thunder rumbles, proving our certainty justified. The forecast calls for rain: 100%. The cloud with the lightening bolt flying out comically warns us: an image so innocent and besides, we’ve been through storms. We know what to expect. We wait. The only…
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When the Spirit Comes
Seeing, Hearing, Feeling and Testifying in Truth Pentecost | John 15:26-27 & 16:4b-15 When the advocate comes After Jesus comes back from the dead and appears to Mary, appears to his disciples, then appears to them again, now with Thomas in their midst, he says to them that iconic phrase: “Blessed are those who…
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For Pentecost, wear more than red
In many of the Episcopal Churches of which I’ve been a part, there is a regular tradition of wearing red on Pentecost. Red, of course is the liturgical color of the day, but it also matches the fire images that accompany the day. Opportunities to red the place up and evoke the tongues of fire…
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Telling Stories – The Spirit, the Gospel, and Moving On (Pentecost)
a Homily for The Day of Pentecost Text: Acts 2:1-21 Into the Unknown There are those moments when we read scripture that, if you’re anything like me, you are saying “Yeah…I’m not sure I would’ve done that.” Last week, we read about how Jesus left the disciples, disappearing behind a cloud. The disciples went back…