Pentecost, May 23, 2021
Llvestream at 8:30am
Bulletin for the service
Prayer of the Day
Mighty God, you breathe life into our bones, and your Spirit brings truth to the world. Send us this Spirit, transform us by your truth, and give us language to proclaim your gospel, through Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.
Scripture
Acts 2:1-21
Psalm 104:24-35
Romans 8:22-27
John 15:26-27; John 16:4b-15
Sermon
"Something is Happening"
Acts 2:1-21
Panel: Fifty days after the resurrection Jesus has gone back up into heaven and the apostles are huddled together in a house. All of a sudden a sound like a violent wind fills the whole place where they were sitting. Tongues of fire rest on their heads and they begin to testify as the Spirit gives them ability. They are speaking. Something is happening. They have been filled with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit has broken into their lives and God is on the move. The Spirit breaks into our lives, too, when we are huddled in our own houses of sin and death, fills us with that same Holy Spirit, and propels us out into the world with the fire now resting on our heads. With new courage and power, we testify to God’s mighty deeds in our own languages as the Spirit enables us. And we follow the risen Jesus to all sorts of new places. God is on the move. Something is happening. Come, Holy Spirit!
Hymns
Entrance hymn | LBW 284 | Creator Spirit, Heavenly Dove |
Hymn of the Day | LBW 163 | Come, Holy Ghost, God and Lord |
Sending hymn | LBW 161 | O Day Full of Grace |
LBW Lutheran Book of Worship |
In our prayers we remember the Cabrini-Green Legal Aid Clinic.
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