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Article: Seventh Sunday of Easter: May 20, 2007.(Preaching Helps)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- February 1, 2007
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Acts 16:16-34
Psalm 97
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
John 11:20-26
One of the themes implicit in the Easter season is that of our living "between the times." We spoke of this metaphorically five weeks ago, in describing Acts and Revelation as ripples emanating from the historical and eschatological Easters, such that we who live between them are pushed and pulled by both. If such a conception is true of the Easter season as a whole, it is exponentially more so of this last Sunday of the season. On this day we stand between Ascension and Pentecost, between the departure of the visible Christ and the visible gift of the Spirit.
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