Almighty God, we your children pray: let your glory come down.
Let the Fire fall on us gathered here as on that first Day of Pentecost.
Revive our spirits, fill us with new excitement, with joy unspeakable
And compassion for a dying world.
Empower us to speak your Word; to utter your words of Life;
Using a variety of languages to bring the good news to the poor.
Lord, let your fire fall once again on this church, on this community,
On this country, and on all the families of the earth.
In Jesus name and in the power of your Holy Spirit. Amen.
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Expecting the Unexpected,
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The Spirit of Hope,
Romans 8:22-27,
by Rev. Rick Thompson Surprised by the Spirit, Numbers 11:24-30, Acts 2:1-21, Richard Gehring Tuning up to God's SpiritActs 2:1-20,
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Children's Messages
Happy Birthday, Church! Romans 8:22-27, Randy L
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God's Spirit Gives Courage,
Pentecost
Sunday, Frank Schaefer Christians Need the Spirit as Much as Balloons Need Air
Birthday of the Church
Where the Spirit is there is...Noise
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Expecting the Unexpected
based on Acts 2:1-21
by Rev. Dr. Cynthia Huling Hummel
The other day a fire truck pulled up in front of a
nearby house. I have to admit that I was curious and so I wandered down
the street to see what was going on. A crowd was gathering and pointing
to a large oak tree. I looked up and saw a woman sitting there holding
on to a branch for dear life. The firefighters had raised their ladder
and two of the them climbed up to help the woman get down from a tree..
You might wonder what the woman was doing in a tree. (I did.) Well, she
had climbed the tree to get her cat and found that she couldn't get
down.
It's been a while since I've climbed a tree, but my sense (and
remembrance ) is that it is that going up is a lot easier than going
down. The woman was frozen in fear and no doubt embarrassed.. I know
that I would have been too. What about you? Have you ever been paralyzed
by fear? That's how it was for the disciples that first Easter. They
locked themselves up in a room. They were terrified of what had happened
and what might happen. And so they hid.
Today is Pentecost Sunday, a day when we celebrate the birth of the
church and the power of God's Holy Sprit in our lives. It is also a day
when we celebrate sharing the love of Jesus Christ with one another:
Luke tells us in the Book of Acts that two things happened that
extraordinary day! The first thing that Luke reports was that there was
a sound from heaven: like a rush of violent wind- and secondly, that
there were tongues of fire that rested on the heads of Jesus' followers.
In other words there was both an audible- and a visible sign- - of God's
presence among the believers.
Before they received the Holy Spirit, the disciples hid. They were
afraid of the authorities. They were afraid of being caught.
........
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Our parish priest had a flair for the dramatic. He got the idea of having a
pigeon released from the belfry on Pentecost just at the moment when, on the
church steps in front of the procession of worshipers, he would say, "Come, Holy
Spirit!" Pentecost came, and the sacristan put a pigeon in a bag, went
upstairs to the belfry and waited. When the priest pronounced the words, nothing
happened. A few seconds later, we heard a voice from the belfry, "the cat ate
the pigeon! You want to me throw the cat down?"
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