As I began my sermon last Sunday… on Whitsunday… Pentecost… I mentioned that I couldn’t remember why it was called that. It was brought to mind … as I was reading a devotion from Luther in the devotional “Day By Day We Magnify Thee”— a good devotional, by the way, that has pieces of his sermons and commentaries… and other writings…
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This day celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and the establishment of the New Testament church on earth…
But…
What has happened since?
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And what’s with the weather?
As a pastor that is one prayer request I used to get all the time in both my Wisconsin and Iowa parishes—to pray for good crop weather.
Not so much here in Chicagoland.
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Why does Jesus rebuke them…or us for not believing…and notice it was not believing when seeing, but believing THE REPORT…THE MESSAGE…THE WORD…THE WORD OF PROMISE here…?
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I don’t say gas, because I have a VW diesel. Which means more pain even though I get good mileage out of each gallon.
So why don’t we have it better than before?
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St. James is telling us a reality of the Christian life. He is repeating the idea that Jesus talked about earlier.
Jesus says there were two sons. Their father asked them to go and work for Him. One said yes, but did not go. The other said no, but changed his mind and went and did.
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