On the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was known in the sound of a rushing wind. God was identified in the wind as the Spirit who moved across the deep before creation (Genesis 1), driving back the waters of the flood in the days of Noah (Genesis 8), parting the waters of the Red Sea as the Israelites passed from slavery…
“It’s fairly simple.” That’s when you know you are in for it. “Not much to it.” He said to me as Ben handed me a caulk gun from the supply trailer. Four years ago, our church sent a volunteers-in-mission team to Crisfield, Maryland, on the Eastern shore to provide still needed recovery help after Hurricane Sandy. We arrived four years after the…
Do you love me? Feed my lambs. Emerson, aged eleven, in Sioux Fall, North Dakota, loves writing letters. She writes prolifically, usually including art, jokes, stories about her younger brothers, mention of her obsession with Taylor Swift, and enough questions to get a reply, her father, said. Recently, Emerson decided to thank her postal carrier, Doug, for the work he does in…
Good morning! Today I am going to be talking about faith. I think in normal everyday life the word faith is used in multiple contexts. Some might say “I have faith that I can finish that 10K run,” “I have faith that my vegetable garden will take off,” or “I have faith that the Eagles will win another Super Bowl.” For me,…
In these great fifty days after Easter, Jesus continues his resurrection tour. On tour, he has shown up multiple times with the disciples as he promised to do. We have seen him with the women at the tomb, in the upper room, on the road to Emmaus. In our gospel lesson this morning, we finish the reading from the last verses of…