The sermon I will be preaching in about forty minutes! As always click on the Bible links for the full texts and on [more] for the complete sermon held at New Kid Deep Stuff Year A Pentecost (2008) RCL Principal John 20.19-23 1 Corinthians 12.3b-13 Acts 2.1-21 Jesus Loves the Church I recently found myself in a conversation with a minister who is Chaplain to an Anglican Church in Paris. There were lots of good things that came out of that conversation, but quite early on in the process he came out with something that really made me think. He said ‘I love Church, Church is why I get up in the morning.’ It’s not a sentence I hear very much. Not even for those of us whose life and ministry is lived around the Church… Actually perhaps for those of us who are involved in the Church to a greater degree we are more likely to criticise and complain – to be honest – because we have invested so much in the life of our Churches. I promise you, you never want to spend any great length of time i...