Trinity Sunday

1. ““Town Hall” Discussion w/AnthonyTown Hall” Discussion w/Anthony
Sunday, June 3 2018 @ 11:30amSunday, June 3 2018 @ 11:30am

2. Potluck Supper @ VintagePotluck Supper @ Vintage
Wednesday, June 6 2018 @ 6:30pmWednesday, June 6 2018 @ 6:30pm

3. Today’s ServiceToday’s Service Sunday, 5.27.18Sunday, 5.27.18

4. Genesis 1: 1-2
In the beginning (he) God* created the heavens
and the earth. The earth was formless and void,
and darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and (she) the Spirit of God* was moving
(brooding/fluttering) over the surface
of the waters.
(NOTE: elohim = masculine in Hebrew;
ruach = feminine in Hebrew)

5. Mark 1:9-11
In those days Jesus came from Nazareth in
Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan.
Immediately coming up out of the water,
he saw the heavens opening, and the Spirit*
like a dove descending upon him; and a voice
came out of the heavens: “You are my beloved
son, in you I am well-pleased.”
(NOTE: pneuma = masculine in Greek;
rucha = feminine in Aramaic)

6. Mark 8:34-35
And (Jesus) summoned the crowd
with his disciples, and said to them,
“If anyone wishes to come after me,
he must deny himself, and take up his cross
and follow me. For whoever wishes to save
his life will lose it, but whoever loses his
life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.

7. A Prayer For Trinity Sunday
Holy God,
the earth is full of the glory of your love.
May we your children, born of the Spirit,
so bear witness to your Son Jesus Christ,
crucified and risen, that all the world
may believe and have eternal life
through the One who saves,
Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
now and for ever.
Amen.

12. HolyTrinity
SaintAndreRublev(@1400)
ICON:
a painting of Jesus Christ
or another holy figure,
typically in a traditional
style on wood, venerated
and used as an aid to
devotion in the Byzantine
and other Eastern
Churches.

13. HolyTrinity
Restored(1905-1918)
Reflects Abraham’s meal
with the three angelic
visitors in Genesis 18;
symbolizes the Trinity,
and our journey of faith…

14. Trinity(w/Icons)
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15. THE REASON FOR GOD, by Tim Keller
“The inner life of the triune God…
is characterized…by mutually self-giving love.
Each of the divine persons centers upon
the others. None demands that the others
revolve around them. Each voluntarily circles
the other two, pouring love, delight and
adoration into them. Each person of the
Trinity loves, adores, defers to, and rejoices
in the others. That creates a dynamic,
pulsating dance of joy and love.”

16. Keller continues...
“If God is unipersonal, then until God created other beings there
was no love…a unipersonal God (might be) power, sovereignty,
and greatness from all eternity, but not love. Love then is not
the essence of God, nor is it at the heart of the universe. Power
is primary. However, if God is triune, then loving relationships in
community are the ‘great fountain…at the center of reality’ (Lewis.)
When Jesus said you must lose yourself in service to find yourself,
he was recounting what the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have been
doing throughout eternity… God is a community of persons who
have loved each other for all eternity…You were made for mutually
self-giving, other-directed love (with God and with one another!)
”

17. HolyTrinity
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Trinity(w/Icons)
ScottErickson

18. Dallas Morning News

19. The Nicene Creed (325; 381)
We believe in One God
The Father, the Almighty
Make of heaven and earth
Of all that is seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God,
Begotten, not made, of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven.

20. The Nicene Creed
By the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate
from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
He ascended into heaven and is seated
at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

21. The Nicene Creed
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.
Amen.

22. Mark 12
Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’
And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment
greater than these.