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![I was at Barnes and Noble today studying and working on a sermon for Thursday and a
girl sat down at a table next to me. She said hello and asked me what I was doing...and
being the fool that I am I said..."Working on a speech for a class"...then feeling that all
too familiar kick in the conscious not to be ashamed of the Gospel and I said, "Well,
actually, it is a sermon--something like a speech that pastors give to give witness to God
..." She said, "Oh, I see, cool." Then she brought all of her stuff, sat down at my table in
the chair across from me, grabbed my notebook with my notes to look at, and
said..."Ok. I'm listening..." And then I preached the word...the text: John 3:14-21. YES,
THIS REALLY HAPPENED. What did [I] re-learn today? Our pulpits are truly not in
the fronts of churches or high and lofty ivory towers; dare we even say the serpent
raising institutions and mindsets, of which I am surely a part, that have misused and
imprisoned texts like John 3:16 with false glory and condemnation. Nay brothers and
sisters, our pulpits are and always have been in the world, and they are there in every
new and unexpected place of darkness calling us to point to Christ and to shine the
penetrating, life-giving light of the Gospel of God. The God who loves the world
deeply. The God who makes all things new...creates out of nothing...brings hope out of
despair...the God who constantly restores and reorders how we understand power and
witness...Yes, our God, the great I AM who is revealed in Christ on the cross...the God
who has called us each his beloved children...and the God who has freed us to live that
very identity in the world. "This is my commandment: love one another." ♥ Silly God.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sundaysafterpentecost1-120523105136-phpapp01/75/Sundays-after-pentecost-1-5-2048.jpg)
![The Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John
John 14:8-17 [25-27]
15:26-27
16:4b-11
20:22](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/sundaysafterpentecost1-120523105136-phpapp01/75/Sundays-after-pentecost-1-7-2048.jpg)
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