MAC KIRK

  Pentecost ---am I a spiritual person or not? Pentecost today May 24 , but the real issue is " Am I am spiritual person or not?" ACTS 2    Today I want to ask some deeply spiritual questions because somehow in our day these questions are in the background.  What is the foreground?  It depends on who you ask of course.  Some struggle with age related issues and we can id with that.  Some have issues related to what kind of worship should we be having in our culture and others just are not engaged in a deep way perhaps in some of the questions I want to ask today.  Of course we always have the foreground issues of the look of the building (which is important), etc......and who is coming or not coming to hear the preaching of the Word and receive the Holy Communion.  These may be good things to think about today .  We should do that.    As we look to the Scriptures today you will see i...

Morning Prayer Ascension Thursday May 14 Ephesians 4:1-16 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. 7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, e...

  Making of Sermons Rogation Sunday, 5th S. after Easter and Making of our Lives through Sowing  and Reaping I had the privilege of talking with a gentleman in California when I was there who used to discuss things with me in the retirement home where my Dad was living.  ( He and his wife were both residents of the beautiful Retirement Home in Pacific Grove)I found out later I could never win an argument /discussion as he always seemed to have an answer.  Later I found out  he was the retired head of the Rhetoric dept and debate at Stanford Univ! No wonder. After several visits out there to see Dad we became friends and still discussed , but I was more prepared knowing who he was . He wrote a book recently on " The Rhetoric of the Pulpit" , Dr. Jon Ericson, and on the back he took my endorsement as a Retired Army Chaplain  along with several others who had read his mss and assisted in that way. One of the things he says in his book which I rather like is " ...