Sermon Easter Day

The Holy Spirit is too often absent from our theology, too often missing from the Easter proclamation.  The doctrine of the trinity is not a scholastic, heady, or impersonal theology, God as the divine trinity is critical to the Christian understanding of life and worship.  Jesus came proclaiming the message of the Kingdom of God as a kingdom of God's grace, love, and peace.  Jesus also is our peace, is God's grace, and is himself the embodiment of God's love.  In Jesus' absence, he promises the gift of the Spirit of God, which supported Jesus throughout his own ministry from his birth, baptism, temptations, ministry, death and resurrection.  The Spirit empowers, comforts, leads and directs Christians not as human experience of emotion, but as the spirit of God; the revealer of scripture and truth.  In this sermon we review the text when Jesus breathes on his disciples imparting the Spirit in his easter appearance and tasking them with proclaiming the message of the forgiveness of sins.  We are called by the power of the Spirit to live in humility and repentance and to proclaim this message of forgiveness and reconciliation to God.  Here Jesus gives the authority to the church to proclaim this message but only through the Holy Spirit of God.

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