I think I will call the sermon this week- Earth, Wind and Fire. The wind and the fire come from the Pentecost story but the earth is what stumps me.

I love the Pentecost story as long as it is a story from scripture. When I try to fit it into my reality on this earth I have trouble.

This morning I was thinking about the Acts passage on my way to work. Then on the radio I heard about Clinton and Obama and I wondered what the Spirit has to do with the election of a president. Then I heard about 20,000 dead bodies floating around Myanmar and living people still floating waiting to be rescued. What does the wind of the Spirit have to do with the wind of a cyclone? Then I thought about this awful war we are stuck in and how the people of Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth would really rather have us stay away. What is the Spirit saying to the church today?

So maybe the sermon title should be Wind and Fire Come to Earth. Today this passage raised more questions that it resolves.