Pentecost Call to Worship

As we prepare for Pentecost this year, I couldn't find a piece of the liturgy that fit well with what we are doing at Spirit of Joy! Lutheran Church, so I wrote this call to worship. With the thought that perhaps it will be useful to others, I am sharing it here.

Welcome in the name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Amen!

On that first Pentecost, God Spirit transformed the lives of the disciples and changed the world. As we gather, we pray for that same Spirit to be poured out on us.
Come, Holy Spirit!

The Holy Spirit is a fire, consuming our selfishness, our hatred, and our indifference – filling our lives with new life and the light of God.
Come, Holy Spirit!

Filled with the Holy Spirit, our lives bear fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, and self-control. Like the beacon of a lighthouse, may the fruit of the Spirit shine in our lives.
Come, Holy Spirit!

The Holy Spirit never leaves us where we are – we are sent by the Spirit out into the world to be the salt of the earth, to show God’s love to all people, to bring God’s Spirit of joy to the world.
Come, Holy Spirit!

Gracious God, pour your Spirit into our hearts, that we would worship today with all our hearts, that our lives would be transformed by your power, and that we would carry your joy from this place into all the world.

To you we give our honor and praise, through Jesus Christ our Lord, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, now and forever.
Amen!

"Do We Mean It?" Pentecost 2013

"Do We Mean It?" A sermon for the Pentecost Sunday, preached at St. John Lutheran Church of Prairie Hill on May 19, 2013. Text: Acts 2:1-21.

Thank you to Pastor Rafael Malpica Padilla for his call at the 2013 Gulf Coast Synod Assembly to be a church that is disturbed by the Holy Spirit.\

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Pentecost

Sometimes, it is hard to find just the right hymn for the day. Other times, the choice is obvious. Tomorrow is the day of Pentecost, and as I listened to a preacher this weekend talk about "God's mighty wind," all I could think about was this song.

"And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting." ~ Acts 2:2 

So, if you are still looking for a hymn for Pentecost, I give you "A Mighty Wind is Blowin'" as sung by the New Main Street Singers, The Folksmen and Mitch & Mickey.

You're welcome :-)