Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: May 31, 2015 | 10:00am
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SERMON SERIES:
Deep Breath
I want to begin this morning by asking all of you a question. How many of you, with where things are in your life, need to take a deep breath? For how many of you was the month of May crazy busy? I’ve decided that that May is the third month in the Holy Trinity of months on the calendar (December for Advent; April for Lent; May for Mother’s Day, Graduations, Finals, planting, spring cleanup). The list can go on.
Well, you made it, May 31st and what better way to close out an absolutely batty month than with a picnic and a relaxed time of worship. Is everybody happy to be here? How many of you really just need to take a couple of deep breaths? Me too!
Last Sunday, we had an absolutely fantastic time of worship with baptisms, we celebrated Pentecost, and were reminded that at Pentecost God flooded the lives of the Apostles with his Holy Spirit, giving you and me the power to be witnesses to the resurrected Christ in our lives.
But I would guess that for many of us, myself included, there are times that you say to yourself, “Ok, I can begin to see God the Father and Creator of all things. Jesus I get. But what now about the Spirit?” If that’s you, don’t worry, you’re not alone. I bet there are some who have witnessed some puzzling demonstrations of the “Holy Spirit,” and what that has done is send us into the tangible, relatable, even doctrinal view of faith, because we just don’t know what to do with the Spirit.
In fact, this week I had someone ask me about when and why a person would raise their hands in worship. And for questions like these, I think it’s important for us to dig deeply into what the Bible says about the Holy Spirit – the elusive, mysterious, even shy member of the Trinity. But fear not, because this unseen presence of God is actually much more tangible and real than we might realize.
So I want to invite you to take a deep breath with me now, and listen to the Word of the Lord from John chapter 14…
Download the entire transcript here: John 14 15-26 Deep Breath Holy Spirit Intro
