Acts 2:1-21 -- The story of the Pentecost wind.
or Genesis 11:1-9 -- The Tower of Babel
Psalm 104:24-34, 35b -- God made everything, including the great, wide sea and Leviathan to play in it.
Romans 8:14-17 -- All who are led by God's Spirit are God's children
or Acts 2:1-21
John 14:8-17, (25-27 -- Jesus describes the Advocate, the Spirit of truth.
I suggest that we focus on Genesis 11, the Tower of Babel, on Thursday evening. It's a grand thing, full of human longing, disappointment, confusion, wonder and a kind of sobriety.
The story is an etiology, that is, a story about how things came to be, what caused something else to happen. Genesis has a lot of these: why snakes have no feet, why sex is fun but childbirth is painful, why we have to work to grow food. Some of them are like Aesop's fables. All of them are confident that things have a cause.
How do things get started, anyway? What is it that sets things in motion? When do we ask this kind of question? How do we decide what the answer is? How do we know if we're right? Pitfalls abound!
"Let's build a really, really tall tower and make a name for ourselves!" Sure! Or, maybe, "Let's drill a really, really deep well, way down into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico...".
Thursday evening, 7:00. See you there!
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