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Article: In search of the Spirit.(Preaching Helps)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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Proper 18--Thanksgiving Day, Series C
First Sunday in Advent, Series A
Though these Preaching Helps take us the rest of the way through the Sundays after Pentecost, past The Reign of Christ and Thanksgiving, into our next liturgical year, they were written during the Easter Season and edited in the weeks before Pentecost. During these weeks, our First Readings in worship came from the Book of Acts. The church recorded in Acts seems to drip with the Holy Spirit. Everywhere you turn, the Spirit is doing something. And the Spirit is not subtle, vague, or tentative. I quickly count forty verses in which the Holy Spirit instructs, empowers, fills, witnesses, ...