As Christians we believe in God, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We also know we have received the Holy Spirit through our baptism. But if we were asked by someone who knew nothing of Christianity – so what does “receiving the Spirit” mean? what happens? – Would we have a good answer? For all […]
We may struggle a little with the story of the Ascension (Acts 1:1-11). Our first reaction might be to wonder, ok, what actually happened? Jesus disappears up into the sky, then what? This is probably the wrong question to be asking – wrong in the sense that we’re not going to get a useful answer.
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Before we get to the main course for today, let’s take a quick side trip. Last week we heard how Philip really didn’t do very well at understanding what Jesus was telling him, and Jesus, in the nicest way possible, took him to task for not seeing what was in front of him. Today in
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Last week we heard how the Pharisees failed to understand Jesus when he talked about being the gate to the sheepfold. We mentioned the similarity to Jesus saying that he was “the Way”. Today we hear directly about the occasion when Jesus used that phrase. In this case he’s talking not to pharisees but to
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