Receiving the Holy Spirit from Those Who Cannot Breathe: Message, May 31, 2020

Scripture: John 20:19-23

Learning to Receive the Holy Spirit from Those Who Cannot Breathe
Prayer: Gracious and Longsuffering God, in the midst of all the poignant humanity found among coronavirus sufferers and their loved ones, this past week a horrific display of inhumanity called our attention to another virus.

How long, O Lord … How long? Come the Holy Spirit today, to say for those who dare practice their Christian faith: Not long! Not long!

May it be so. Amen.

Of Lighthouses, Maps, and American Dirt

Of Lighthouses, Maps, and American Dirt

Date: February 2, 2020
Scriptures: Micah 6:1-8

A ship is at sea. Suddenly: a light on the horizon. The ship radios to the light, “Turn your course 10 degrees to the north.” Comes the reply: “You turn your course 10 degrees to the south.”

Back-and-forth they go. “Turn your course 10 degrees to the north!” “No, turn yours ten – and to the south!”

The ship draws dangerously close. The captain commandeers the radio, shouting, “I’m the captain of this ship, and I demand that you turn your course 10 degrees to the north.” The reply? “I’m a sailor. You turn your course.”

“Listen, sailor: I’m a captain, and we’re a battleship! We demand you redirect your course ten degrees to the north.”

That “E” Word

That “E” Word

Date: January 26, 2020
Scriptures: Matthew 4:12-23

Let me tell you a story. A story of three Bakers.
Not the kind we find in a kitchen. But three people with that surname. Three Bakers. A mother and her two daughters.

As life would have it, I came to know each of these three Bakers in sequential decades: the 1980s … the 1990s … and the “aughts”, the 2000s. All through the church.

My first Baker encounter was in 1989. Susan Baker and I entered seminary together that year.

 

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