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- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: June 7, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Deep Breath
David and Kim Laufenburger are the Directors of Camp Ojibway in Siren, Wisconsin, and were enjoying a bit of down time following dinner. The dishes were being washed, the staff was preparing for evening vespers, and 54 second and third graders were out playing basketball, throwing the Frisbee, or huddling together with new friends, when the phone rang. It was Kim’s father Rex: “I think you’d better get those kids indoors to safety now. You’ve got some weather headed your way.” And not a moment too soon, no sooner than the staff corralled the children into the dry storage and equipment rooms in the walk out basement of the main lodge, did the windows blow out. So close was it, in fact, that they had to wedge towels at the bottom of the doors to keep the broken glass from blowing in.
On Monday, June 18th, 2001 a category F-3 Tornado bore down upon Camp Ojibway, peeling the roof off the main lodge, as well as entire cabins off their foundations. It tossed speed boats and wave runners out into the middle of the lake like they were skipping stones and made the pier look like the track of a roller coaster.
When it had all passed and the group began to emerge from the rubble, two things were apparent: 1. Miraculously, not a single human life was injured, not even a scratch; 2. Camp was gone. And so as they stood there in the eerie silence that followed, they were confronted with many, many questions, among them, “What does this mean?”
We are continuing a series of messages called Deep Breath. The Hebrew noun used to describe it is ruach. Over and over again, the Bible describes the Spirit as the breath or wind of God that moves throughout the world. And as we look to the Scriptures for an honest and authentic understanding of the Holy Spirit, we cannot avoid the fact that it moves in mysterious ways. It moves in unpredictable ways; in gentle, peaceful ways; and in chaotic, unpredictable ways. So when we say that to know the Holy Spirit is to know the Deep Breath of God, what we are saying is that we know vast myriad experiences both uplifting and also terrifying that enable us to look to the eye of the storm and know that Deep Breath.
Download the entire transcript here: Jonah 1 1-17 Wind to Carry
