On Pentecost Sunday we focus on the gift of the Holy Spirit. In honor of the occasion, the question for this week will be the one that God asks of Ezekiel as they survey a mass grave of dry bones in Ezekiel 37: “Mortal, can these bones live?” After this past year, how would we answer God’s question? What did Ezekiel do?
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This sermon topic comes from a person discouraged by the constant barrage of violence, hate, and corruption that fills every news cycle. The person wrote, “Sometimes it’s hard not to feel hopeless, that [what I do] is just not enough — like God has turned away, and left us on our own, and that negativity and brutality are going to take over the world.” The person has a point. It does seem like we’re in especially perilous times right now. Where do we find hope? Does what we do really matter?
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One of the Ten Commandments (either #4 or #5, depending on how you count) says, “Honor thy father and thy mother.” We often breeze past that just like we breeze into Mother’s Day and Father’s Day thinking, “Who can possibly have a problem with that?” A lot of people, as it turns out. What is that commandment asking us to do?
Is it dishonor to put a parent into a long-Term Care facility? What about parents who demand fealty for life no matter the cost? And what about parents who abuse, neglect, or otherwise harm their children? They get “honor”?
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There are people who attend Crawford with backgrounds in many different Christian traditions as well as those with little to no church background at all. That means there are many understandings of what it means to share the bread and cup as we celebrate Holy Communion. What is it, exactly, that we think we’re doing during that time? Since this is a Communion Sunday, it seemed like a good time to lift up this question from the list of issues you have submitted.
My response is that trying to think it through is probably not helpful. There is more to be gained by living it.
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Continuing our series of sermons on the topics and questions you have submitted. That opportunity is not closed, so keep sending them, and the series will go on as long as we have new topics submitted.
This week’s question is: “Why did God allow this pandemic to happen and have so many innocent people die?”
This is one of those questions where we aren’t in a position to know the actual answer, but there are several opinions. Join us on Sunday morning to hear what they are and see what you think.
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The first in a series of sermons on the topics and questions you have submitted. That opportunity is not closed, so keep sending them, and the series will go on as long as we have new topics submitted.
Is there something wrong or shameful about being a skeptical, questioning Christian? I would love to have a church filled to overflowing with skeptical, questioning Christians.
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