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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>There are other places in the New Testament where the Holy Spirit comes
with the gift of teaching. Peter and Apollos and Phillip and many others
receive the Spirit and begin to teach -- they speak clearly and understandably
so that other people may know the gospel. This is a gift of the Holy Spirit.<br>
<br>
There are places in the New Testament where the Holy Spirit means patience and
strength through trial and suffering. There are places where the Holy Spirit
means simply that someone has a solid faith which is an inspiration to others.
In some places in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit comes before baptism, and
in other places, after baptism. There is simply no way anyone can put rules and
boundaries around the Holy Spirit, who is free because She is part of a sovereign
God.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a
href="http://www.sermonsuite.com/free.php?i=788014432&key=hjh4nmdhwKqgKv6a">http://www.sermonsuite.com/free.php?i=788014432&key=hjh4nmdhwKqgKv6a</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Erskine White<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>_____________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>St. Augustine</span></font></st1:City></st1:place><font
size=4><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>, that consummate theologian of the West,
used what we would now call psychological categories to explain the Trinity in
terms of memory, understanding, and will.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>…what we see in the Trinity is a dance of Persons who are
mutually affirming, mutually caring. For the very essence of God is
relationship, community, unconditional love.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a href="http://day1.org/1947-the_dance">http://day1.org/1947-the_dance</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>C.K. “Chuck” Robertson, 2010<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>______________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Theologian Richard J. Hauser asks, "Do [we] adequately acknowledge
the Spirit's role in the good actions [we] perform every day, or do [we]
attribute them only to [our] own initiative and hard work?" It's a good
question! Hauser continues, "The scripture model insists that if the
action was good, the Spirit was present from the beginning."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>(Richard J. Hauser, In His Spirit, quoted in A Guide to Prayer for All
Who Seek God, Norman Shawchuck and Rueben P. Job, editors, (Nashville, TN:
Upper Room Books, 2003), p. 221.)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a href="http://day1.org/1257-the_churchs_hope">http://day1.org/1257-the_churchs_hope</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Fred R. Anderson, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>…"Prove or disprove the existence of God" in ten
pages. One clever answer used less than a page, and got top marks for the
effort. The student wrote to the effect that the assignment was not
possible using the rules of logical proof. For in using the available
conventional starting point, we would only be able to use the things that can
be observed and verified by human senses within the known created world.
All one could do, the argument supposed, in that instance is prove that
something in the created world was God. In other words, you could prove
that something was God that could not possibly be God. The second part of
the argument suggested that in order for such a "proof" to be valid,
a student would have to be objective, from the start, about that answer.
A student would need not to care if there was or was not a
"God". Since everyone has a stake in the answer, one way or
another, it was reasoned that such a proof was impossible to attempt.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a
href="http://www.predigten.uni-goettingen.de/predigt.php?id=262&kennung=20070603en">http://www.predigten.uni-goettingen.de/predigt.php?id=262&kennung=20070603en</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>
<p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Luke Bouman, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Jesus' words make it clear that spiritual growth is an ongoing process.
He told his followers that there was no way they could comprehend everything he
wanted to teach them -- but, as time went on the Spirit would lead them into
full understanding. Notice the 13th verse. Jesus does not say, <em><i><font
face="Times New Roman">"...he will zap you into all the truth!"</font></i></em>
The Spirit will <u>guide</u>, not zap. Not only that -- the language here can
rightfully be translated, <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">"...he will
guide and keep on guiding you..."</font></i></em> In other words, there is
no magic bullet and no short cut to authentic living that delivers meaning,
direction and purpose. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St Paul</st1:place></st1:City>
himself said, <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">"Not that I have already
obtained this or have already reached the goal; but I press on to make it my
own..."</font></i></em><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a href="http://www.lectionarysermons.com/SL67.html">http://www.lectionarysermons.com/SL67.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>John Jewell, 1998<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>_______________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>The first statement about the Spirit of truth is in the text for today
in John 16. The Apostle John writes, “When the Spirit of truth comes, he
will guide you into all the truth.” In this passage, we are reminded that
God is Spirit, and that God is the source of our drive for truth. This drive
for truth in all aspects of life comes from God. Focus on the word, guide. The
Holy Spirit is none other than the Spirit of truth and this Spirit will guide
us, lead us, show us, reveal to us the truth. Focus on the phrase, ‘into
all the truth.” We know that the Holy Spirit will lead us into the full
truth about Jesus, but at this moment in the sermon, let us remember that the
Holy Spirit guides us into “<i><span style='font-style:italic'>all</span></i>
the truth.” God is truth and wants us to know the truth in every aspect
of life such as science, history, math, music, medicine, psychology, sociology
and everything that is here in our universe. The Spirit of truth leads us into
all the truth. That is what the history of human civilization is about: the search
for truth.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a
href="http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_c_the_spirit_of_truth.htm">http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_c_the_spirit_of_truth.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Edward F. Markquart<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>_______________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Dr. Anderson is
the chief administrator of Presbyterian Counseling Services, the largest
counseling organization here in the Northwest; and he supervises some thirty to
forty professional counselors; therefore Dr. Anderson knows as much as anyone
about what makes for a good counselor. So I asked him, “Doug, what are
the characteristics of a good counselor?”<u1:p> <o:p></o:p></span></u1:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Doug said: A good
counselor? First, a good counselor has a personal concern for others; the
counselor is personally concerned and compassionate for the needs of others.
He or she is not a detached individual who listens for fifty minutes and then
asks you to pay the fee. Rather, the mark of a good counselor is that they are
truly concerned about your welfare. Second, a mark of a good counselor is
empathy; he or she has an intuitive understanding and feeling of the person
before them. Just as an electrician has an intuitive grasp of the problem
before him; as does someone in electronics, mechanics or accounting, so a good
counselor has an intuitive understanding of the dynamics of the person he/she
is dealing with. Third, a good counselor is congruent; that is, basically,
he/she is a healthy person, a wholesome person. This does not mean that a
counselor is problem free, but has their head and heart pretty well put
together. A fourth and final quality of a good counselor is that they are a
non-judgmental person. When we go into a counselor, we unload all kinds of
personal information and feelings about stuff we would share with no other; and
it is important that the counselor does not condemn us for our feelings or
actions. Condemnation and judgment inhibit communication of further feelings.<u1:p>
<o:p></o:p></span></u1:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>So I asked Doug,
“What is the purpose of a good counselor?” He answered: A counselor
tries to facilitate growth. He/she tries to enable a person to grow. We all
have blocks in our paths to maturity. We all have blocks to growth such as
painful, early childhood trauma with parents or persistent personality problems
or addictions or embarrassing personal habits that prevent us from growing into
God’s fullness for us. A counselor helps remove those blocks. Like when
a person has a blood clot in the leg, medication may be given to dissolve that
block. So a counselor works with the client to help dissolved those blocks
that prevent them from growing. … A counselor does not solve problems
for people, but helps them grow stronger so they can solve their own problems.
A counselor does not make hard decisions for people but helps them become
strong so they can make their own choices.<u1:p> <o:p></o:p></span></u1:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>So I asked a final
question of Doug, “Does a counselor have an ideal image, a goal that
he/she is working towards?” Yes, a counselor has a vision of maturity,
wholeness and congruence that he/she is working towards.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a href="http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/pentecost_counselor.htm">http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/pentecost_counselor.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Edward F. Markquart<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>__________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>The soaring, mystical liturgy of Pentecost abounds in themes. Perhaps
the most important is the idea that in Jesus and the Spirit the diversities in
humankind become unimportant. The Spirit is the source of unity amid diversity.
She does not eliminate diversity, but she makes it possible to rejoice in it
instead of fighting over it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><a href="http://www.agreeley.com/homilies00/jun11.htm">http://www.agreeley.com/homilies00/jun11.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Andrew M. Greeley, 2000<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>___________________<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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