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Prelude
Welcome
Call to Worship *from Psalm 104* \\ \\ Leader: May the glory of the Lord endure forever.
May God rejoice.
People: rejoice... \\ \\ Leader:... in God’s works!
God looks on the earth, and it trembles;
God touches the mountains, and they smoke.
\\ \\ People: Let us sing to the Lord as long as we live, \\ \\ Leader: ... sing to the Lord ... \\ \\ People: Let us sing praise to our God while we have being.
\\ \\ Leader: May our meditation be pleasing to God, \\ \\ People: For we rejoice in the Lord! \\ \\ Leader: Rejoice in the Lord ... \\ \\ People: Rejoice in the Lord ... \\ \\ Leader: Rejoice in the Lord ... \\ \\ All: Rejoice.
~*Hymn of Praise # 177 Rejoice, the Lord is King
Invocation (the Lord’s Prayer) We wait for you, Holy Spirit.
Come, surprise us with your presence.
Come, invite us into your new possibilities.
Come, be real within our life together here.
This we pray in hope and faith.
Litany: Following Jesus with Prayer, Purpose and Passion
Our Offering to God We describe the coming of the Holy Spirit as fire, as doves of peace.
We sense the Spirit has a sense of passion and immediacy.
In John 7, we experience the coming of the Spirit, linked with the living water, which alleviates our thirst as we live the life of faith.
Jesus pictures it as living water, which actually flows forth into the world from the hearts of believers.
We do not hold the Spirit to ourselves.
The sign that we have received the Spirit is that flowing life which spills over into the world around us.
Come, share in the life of the Spirit with thanksgiving.
Let us bring our gifts to God.
Doxology
Prayer of Dedication Receive all that we have offered, O God.
Receive our offering and receive our lives as we share in your work.
Amen.
~*Hymn of Prayer # 195 Hover o’er Me, Holy Spirit
Pastoral Prayer O God, we confess that we do not always
encourage the life of your Spirit among us.
There are times when we settle for less than you offer to us.
Silent reflection
If we have dimmed the light of the Spirit's life, cooling its passionate fires for good and justice into mild embers of complacency:~/~/forgive us, O God of eternal life, and be merciful to us.~/~/When we divert the torrents of your flowing rivers of life into trickling streams; when we allow them to dry up by delaying decisive action as we study and discuss; when we hold back justice as we wait for a moment when there is less risk to us:~/~/forgive us, O God of eternal life, and be merciful to us.~/~/If we cannot imagine ourselves as those who receive the gifts of the Spirit, confining our views of ourselves to the way we have been in the past:~/~/forgive us, O God of eternal life, and be merciful to us.
~*Words of Assurance The Holy Spirit moves in love toward us with
generous gifts for life, far beyond anything we have seen before; flowing through all that we are, bringing healing and grace are forgiven.
Thanks be to God!
~*Prayer of Thanksgiving On this day of Pentecost, we bring you our thanks, O God.
We thank you for the vivid life of the Holy Spirit,
springing up in red flames of energy and of warmth among us; soothing our hearts with healing peace.~/~/We
thank you for hovering wings of care,
which cover us as we go; never leaving us in loneliness, reminding us of the Christ, and carrying us into life and hope.~/~/We
bring you our thanks, O God.~/~/
As we bring our prayers to you, O God, on this joyful day of Pentecost, we hold in our hearts a longing.
We see before us a greater hope than we have ever had, a grander faith than we have ever known shining brightly in the life of your Spirit.
And so we bring our prayers to you now, for ourselves, ~/~/ for the church, ~/~/ and for the world.
Enlarge our every dream, and expand our every possibility.~/~/Silence
reflection.~/~/Come,
Holy Spirit, come.
Draw our spirits toward the
deep, wide vision that springs from your presence.
Call to us in each moment and each place.
Visit us in the shadow, as well as in the blaze of our best impulses.
Reach towards us when we fall.
Lift us when our lives lie low
in fear or in failure.
Hold us when there seems to be nothing left.
Carry us back into the nearness and fullness of your love.
Spring up in delight in the midst of our survival.
Play in joyfulness among us
in the times of our renewal.
For you are the Spirit of hope, and we welcome you this day.
Amen.
~*Hymn of Praise Surely the Presence of the Lord is in this Place
Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place, I can feel His mighty power and His grace.
I can hear the brush of angel’s wings, I see glory on each face; surely the presence of the Lord is in this place.
Scripture Reading /Acts 2:1-21/
Message On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!!!
*On the day of Pentecost, a holy hurricane whipped through Jerusalem and blew away the expectations of all who were gathered there.*
The Spirit Scale
“I know it when I see it.”
\\ That’s what Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said back in 1964.
He was trying to get a handle on one of the trickiest issues faced by the court over the last half century — the definition of obscenity.
About the best he could do, in an attempt to nail down a very slippery concept, was to say, “I know it when I see it.”
\\ We can certainly sympathize with Justice Stewart.
There are so many powerful forces in our lives, both positive and negative, that are difficult to measure.
Think of Quality.
Goodness.
Kindness.
Gratitude.
Envy.
Lust.
And these difficulties are not limited to human characteristics — when you step out of the house in the morning, how do you define the beauty of a sunrise, the gracefulness of a robin, or, say — the strength of the wind?
\\ The question of wind comes up, because a wind is mentioned in the text for today.
\\ The wind.
That’s an invisible but truly powerful force.
We know it when we feel it, but how can we describe it?
\\ “The wind blows where it chooses,” Jesus said, “and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes” (John 3:8).
Significantly, he goes on to say, “So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
\\ For thousands of years, no one thought that the wind could be measured.
But then, in the late 1700s, a cabin boy in the British Navy began to keep a meteorological journal so that he could stay on top of weather conditions.
His name was Francis Beaufort, and he grew up to become a Rear Admiral, serving the Navy for 68 years.
Over the course of his career, he developed a method for describing the wind that became known as “The Beaufort Scale.”
\\ According to Beaufort, you’ve got your “calm.”
You’ve got your “light breeze.”
And then a “moderate breeze,” and then a “gale,” then a “storm,” and then a “hurricane.”
\\ Perhaps he hadn’t heard of tsunamis.
But then, they’re usually generated by earthquakes, not wind.
\\ Beaufort’s definition of “calm” is a “sea like a mirror.”
\\ When a “light breeze” is blowing, you see small wavelets on the water, and the crests don’t break.
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