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In the current political campaign, race has become an issue. In the last general election, sexual orientation was. It seems we can always find some way to pigeonhole folks. Where I grew up, there was an Irish Catholic Church, Italian Catholic, French Catholic, and a sprinkling of Portuguese Catholics shared by each. Black folks went to the AME Church, the Swedes went to the Lutheran Church, and the English origin folks went to the Episcopal Church. The Scots tended to be Presbyterians and on and on it went....
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Receiving The Holy Spirit
Today is Pentecost. Today we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the people of God. Today we celebrate the birthday of the Church of Jesus Christ, recalling our ancestors in the faith who received the power of God's Holy Spirit and began a journey which we continue in this moment as we take on the struggle to become a faithful people in today's world. Today we celebrate the arrival of the Advocate, the Spirit who accompanies and partners with us in life and faith...
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David Kalas
The Counterproductive Sermon
This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. Accordingly, our first reading is the familiar story of Pentecost from chapter 2 of Acts. And, accompanying it, we have two other passages that bring to light the work of the Holy Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul discusses the gifts of the Spirit and in John 20, Jesus breathes on his disciples, saying, "Receive the Holy Spirit." It would be natural enough, therefore, for us to conclude that we should preach this week about the Holy Spirit....
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Frank Ramirez
Would That All Were Prophets
Simon Winchester is a science writer beyond compare, able to take the most difficult subjects and make them not only understandable but fascinating and compelling. He does this by telling stories, and taking the larger story apart and finding other stories inside. In his book, The Professor and the Madman, Winchester told the story of the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, a massive feat that took decades to publish, in part by focusing on the contributions made by an America...
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Janice Scott
Power
In his book, "How To Know God", Deepak Chopra describes seven levels of fulfillment. Level two is described as "You fulfill your life through success, power, influence, status, and other ego satisfaction." There are many highly successful human beings at this level, for our society sets a high value on the attributes of success, power, influence and status....
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Wesley T. Runk
Breath of God
Object: breath (maybe a demonstration of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation using the connector between two mouths)
Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you are breathing this very minute? (let them answer) All of you are breathing but what would happen if you stopped breathing? (let them answer) That's right, you would die....
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