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The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long
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What's the Gift?

Acts 2:1-12

Pentecost

May 27, 2012

The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long (PCUSA)

I don't know if you've ever had the slightly embarrassing experience of having someone give you a gift, only to find out when you opened it, you did not have the foggiest idea what it was or what it was for. I mean, there you are: you're at the company Christmas party, or at a wedding shower, or at your birthday party, and someone hands you a gaily wrapped package. As you pull off the ribbon and the wrapping paper, all the eyes in the circle are on you. You open the box and there it is....

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The Rev. Thomas L. Brackett
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This Prayer That Won't Let Me Go

John 17:6-19

7th Sunday of Easter/Ascension Sunday - Year B

May 20, 2012

The Rev. Thomas Brackett (TEC)

This passage is the gospel assigned for the 7th Sunday of Easter. In this excerpt, the writer offers us a word for word transcript of a prayer that he has somehow overheard Jesus praying. Jesus is here talking to His Heavenly Father, quite intimately reflecting on his mission. You might say that he is offering God a kind of exit interview. He explains that he understands his mission as that of making God's name known to these few who have been pulled out from the rest of the world. These are the few who would "get it." Oh right, and there was that one who was destined to be lost--speaking of Judas. The rest--well Jesus is asking the Holy Father to guard them from the Evil One and protect them--set them aside-- keep them untainted.

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