In worship today we celebrate the Day of Pentecost – 50 days after Easter and the commemoration of Moses receiving the law at Sinai after the Exodus. We are reminded that God opened the way to eternal life to all people and all nations by the gift given through the Holy Spirit. All are included in God’s family across time and space. Our first reading today was taken from Acts and is the recounting of the first Pentecost, the day when the Holy Spirit came upon the believers as tongues of fire. The Psalmist sang a song of remembrance which serves as a reminder that God’s great works are innumerable and beyond compare. Because we receive God’s gift, we must give thanks and praise. The gospel reading from John was the story of Jesus breathing the Holy Spirit on the Disciples in the upper room after his crucifixion.

Today’s sermon was based on the reading from Paul’s letter to the Corinthian church. In this reading Paul offers the reminder that the gifts given by God through the Holy Spirit are all necessary for a properly functioning community of faith. And Paul reminds us that the gifts are all good and all necessary; there isn’t one gift that is better than another as long as they are used to build the body. Our mission is to discern and build the body through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.

I invite your comments,
Les+

Readings: Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:25-35, 37; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13; John 20: 19-23

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