Tuesday, May 27, 2014

 

On Sunday, I preach again...


This Sunday, June 1st, the Sunday before Pentecost, I get to preach for the first time in my home church, St. Stephens in Edina.  Pictured above is Minnehaha Creek running behind and around the back of the church, with haiku-champion Renee wading in the water.  

I love having this opportunity, and fear it a little, too.  I hope that many of my friends will come on that morning-- 8 or 10 am, at the corner of 50th and Wooddale.

As some of you know, I always preach from the gospel lesson, and the lesson for that morning is John 17:1-11:

Jesus looked up to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son so that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all people, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth by finishing the work that you gave me to do. So now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.
"I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you; for the words that you gave to me I have given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am asking on their behalf; I am not asking on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those whom you gave me, because they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I have been glorified in them. And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one. "

 Of all that, here is the part that grabs me:  "And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world…"  What a thing, to be left!   We all know that feeling, don't we?


# posted by Mark Osler @ 12:00 AM
Comments:
Problem with preaching from almost anything by John is that he supplies more substance than 20 minutes and a poem allow for. Hope you publish your sermon. Interested in your treatment of this complex text.
# posted by Anonymous anonymous2, : 12:26 AM
 
How does one become Haiku champion? Of course that was what stuck out to me the most in this post ... :) competitive much? Thanks for the update, I hope to be there for the sermon!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:39 AM
 
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