Tag: pentecost
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Food for the Hungry from an Embodied God
Joel 2:18-29 – 5/25/2026 I am sending you grain, wine, and oil, and you will be satisfied Joel 2:19 (NRSVue) Today’s reading from the Hebrew Prophet Joel contains the prophesy that Peter references on the first day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descends on the gathered believers. “I will pour out my spirit on…
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The Partnership between God and Man
John 20:19-23 – 5/24/2026 – Day of Pentecost When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.” John 20:22-23 (NRSVue) Today’s text comes from the celebration…
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The Age of the Absence of God
Exodus 19:16-25 – 5/22/2026 Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. Exodus 19:17 (NRSVue) Moses bought the people… to meet God. Poetic in its straightforwardness, we are given a picture of the immediate presence of God being discerned by an entire people gathered together. Even though only Aaron and Moses could…
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The Text of Humanity Under Threat
Acts 2:1-11 – 5/21/2026 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Acts 2:4 (NRSVue) Christianity proliferates text. Between the oral traditions of the earliest church to the sermons that resound from pulpits every Sunday around the world, the world has…
Dionysus on a Bike 