Spirit is Upon Us Celebration
\nfor the Community.
\nModern Song Focus on Contemporary Church Artists
\nperforming hymns of traditional foundation.
\nEveryone is Welcome!<\/p>\n
Spirit is Upon Us Celebration Introduction:
\nThe water source for the community is a place where all are admitted, no club membership needed to access this sustainer of daily life.
\nOur psalm is brimming with dyads. As the sun illuminates all, the Creator rules over all. The psalm informs us that we must remain attentive to the Lord’s instruction.
\nPaul wants us to see something more valuable than perceiving unity as uniformity. It is the Holy Spirit that strengthens our best qualities to be used for the good of all. We are individuals within communities, all with strengths as a part and within the whole. It is no reason to separate and apply boundaries between communities as far as the Holy Spirit seeks to join all of mankind.
\nLuke describes how Jesus overcomes temptation through strength from the Holy Spirit. The poor are raised up in the Lord’s favor. In the year of the Jubilee the poor are to be treated as hired hands and not slaves. Jesus validates and removes all doubt that He is the person who is the fulfillment of scriptural prophecy. How can we expect the people from all walks of life within the community to respond to this proclamation?<\/p>\n
Prayer:
\nThy grace, O Father, give,
\nThat I may serve in fear;
\nAbove all boons, I pray,
\nGrant me Thy voice to hear;
\nFrom sin Thy child in mercy free,
\nAnd let me dwell in light with Thee.<\/p>\n
– Gregory of Nazianzus (Cappadocia, Turkey, BCE 325-390).<\/p>\n
How Great Thou Art
\nCarl Gustav Boberg (1949).<\/p>\n