Ezekiel 37:1-14 It is so that in these last days I have meandered between the various readings assigned for the Festival of Pentecost this time around. I pondered the nearness of the Spirit in Romans, (Romans 8:22-27), how One could be so close and know each one of us so well so as to be …
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Brevig Mission, Alaska and the 1918 Flu: Can These Bones Live?
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Can these bones live? For as long as I have been a pastor, I have preached in stories. The challenge in these last weeks, though, has been that I have no stories, no actual experience of a time such as this. I expect you don’t either. As a result, I have found myself …
A Pentecost Wind
Ezekiel 37:1-14 Acts 2:1-21 The wind blew one day a few weeks back. It blew in a time and place where I was not, but I quickly became aware of its power and its presence. It blew across open fields on one of the first days the farmers were able to get out on their …
These Dry Bones and Lazarus and Tooth #30
Ezekiel 37:1-14 John 11:1-45 I do hope my reflection here does not trivialize the power of the images before us now as we find ourselves in a valley of dry bones suddenly re-assembled and infused with breath once more and in the crowd looking on as Jesus’ beloved friend, Lazarus — dead these four days …
These Dry Bones
Ezekiel 37:1-14 I am fortunate, I know, to know so very little of the scene which Ezekiel encountered in the vision before us now. One can only imagine the devastation which must have preceded what resulted in a valley full of dry bones. No, indeed, the closest I can come to comprehending such as this …