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At Denver Community Church, we explore and participate in the life of Jesus, so that we can be a healing presence in our world. Download the latest teachings here.
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Sunday Sep 22, 2013
Sunday Sep 22, 2013
Jesus told his disciples, “it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you.” I’m not sure any of them would have believed him. Jesus was flesh and bone – and, at times, that is far better than anything we could ask for or imagine. But this is not true in the mind of Jesus.
He says that he will send an “another Advocate.” The word there for another means “one who is like the other.” So wait … the Spirit is like Jesus? Well yes, because the Spirit is God just as Jesus is God. He is one who brings comfort, guidance, illumination and one who suffers with us (Romans 8). This is the one Jesus spoke of.
Sunday Sep 08, 2013
Sunday Sep 08, 2013
Jesus promised his disciples they would be baptized in the Spirit – comparing it directly to John’s baptism with water. John’s baptism was a tradition of inauguration. For those who participated in John’s baptism, it was a symbol of their repentance and readiness for the Kingdom of God.
Jesus evokes this language to speak of what will happen to his disciples, and to all people. We will be immersed in the Spirit so that we can participate together with all believers in the new covenant that God has made with humanity. For John, it was a symbol of what was to come. Jesus speaks of the new reality that will come from the Spirit of the Living God.
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
Sunday Sep 01, 2013
The Spirit of God is as close as our next breath, because he is the one who gives us our life and our breath and everything else. So we breathe and have life, and when we stop breathing we have death. Which means for us there is a continual process of renewal within us. With each new breath we experience the life of God.
But what’s really fascinating is that to breathe in, we need to breathe out. And the stuff we breathe out is poisonous to us. It would kill us to only breathe the air we are breathing out. Which raises the question, “What do we need to breathe out?” What are the things in our life we need to get rid of to open up space for the breath of God? The breath that gives life.
Sunday Aug 25, 2013
Sunday Aug 25, 2013
The Spirit of God is first seen in the biblical narrative as one who hovers over the waters – the chaos. It is this spirit of God that gives life through the breath of God to all living creatures. He is the wind, the life, the breath, the Spirit of God. So how do we understand the Holy Spirit? Who is he and why is he important? If he is so important then why have we heard so little about him.
As an introduction to spending some time learning about the Spirit of God we will begin at the beginning. We will contemplate the Spirit’s presence from chaos into creation – the one who gives life and how that same Spirit is here today.
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