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Tag: Holy Spirit

  • Thanksgiving in Threes

    Thanksgiving in Threes

    A prayer for thanksgiving. O Living God, you who are Three-in-One and One-in-Three, we give thanks and praise for your abundant gifts—your mercy and grace. We give thanks… For friends who challenge, bless, and care.For books that confound, enlighten, and teach.For scriptures that nourish, correct, and upbuild.For Jesus, who heals, forgives, and saves.For ancestors of…

  • Christian spirituality, it doesn’t start with you – Sermon 4/5

    Christian spirituality, it doesn’t start with you – Sermon 4/5

    It’s not uncommon today to hear people talking about spiritual things – or talking about spirituality. Not every uses this kind of language – and not everyone is comfortable taking about spirituality. But there are plenty of women and men in our culture who believe that spirituality, or spiritual things, are important to life –…

  • the Spirit of the future – sermon 2/5

    Let me begin with a question this morning. When you think about the future, what do you imagine? When you think about the future, what do you feel or think or imagine? We could answer this question in terms of our own immediate future – in terms of what’s going to happen in my and…

  • the Spirit in Creation – nature and spirituality (1/5)

    When we think about our spiritual lives – when we think about our relationship with God – each one of us will have special moments that stand out for us. Each of us will be able to think back to particular moments when we felt a special closeness to God. Moments when we were particularly…

  • Michelangelo’s David?

    When you hear the name Michelangelo, different things might come to mind. Michelangelo was a towering figure of the Renaissance period. He was a poet, a sculptor, a painter, an engineer – history has been very kind to the memory of Michelangelo. When you think of Michelangelo the artist, you might think first of the…

  • I Believe in the Holy Spirit

    A sermon preached today, in a continuing series on the Apostles’ Creed. _______________________________ This morning as we come back again to the Apostles’ Creed, we turn to the third and final section of the Creed. Already we have thought through “I believe in God the Father.” We have considered “I believe in Jesus Christ, his…

  • A Twofold ‘Yes’

    A sermon preached yesterday – March 15th – in a continuing series on the Apostles’ Creed. ________________________________________   After a two week hiatus we come back today to the Apostles’ Creed – we continue our series of reflections on the faith we confess. Through this series we have been reminded that the Apostles’ Creed is…