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Pentecost B Sermon Commentary

 

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John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 Sermon Commentary

Pentecost B

Well before Jesus ever preached his first sermon, there was John the Baptist.  Long before Jesus ever uttered a parable or healed a blind person, there was John. John had come to prepare the way for his cousin Jesus. And when John preached about this great and coming One, he talked a lot about the…

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Psalm 104:24-34, 35b Sermon Commentary

Pentecost B

Psalm 104 is the perennial choice for Pentecost Sunday in the Lectionary, because of verse 30, which mentions “your Spirit.”  Though there is much plausible controversy about whether that should be translated with a capital “S” as a reference to the third Person of the Trinity, the church has taken it that way for centuries…

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Romans 8:22-27 Sermon Commentary

Pentecost B

Theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie has pointed out that all tonal music in the Western world relies on patterns of tension and resolution.  Songs begin somewhere, take us on a journey through a variety of ensuing notes and melodies, and then finally bring us back to where we started.  It is a pattern of what…

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Acts 2:2-21 Sermon Commentary

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Throughout nearly all of recorded human history, people’s inability to communicate with each other has divided us.  So for people to somehow come (and stay) together, something dramatic must happen.  In fact, since human efforts to fully unify people have proved largely futile or temporary, we might add that something dramatic must happen to us….

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