A sermon from May 12, 2013
Planting the Seeds This is the sermon that I preached on May 12, 2013 at Church of the Saviour, Clermont, Iowa. In addition to it being the seventh Sunday of Easter and the Sunday after the Ascension, our Church also marked it as United Thank Offering Sunday and Rogation Sunday. The texts used were Acts 16: 16-34; Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21; & John 17: 20-26. _______________________________________________ Wow, we are celebrating lots of things today, the United Thank Offering, Rogation Sunday, and the Ascension of Jesus was celebrated this past Thursday. Lots of stuff. But thankfully for you I will keep this short. The story in Acts about Paul and Silas when they went to Philippi has always made me think of the injustices that happen in our world. They were minding their own business but a fortune telling slave girl was following them around shouting who was telling everyone who they really were. Paul, who must have wanted to keep a lower profile, got a