This is the sermon I preached at St. Timothy Lutheran Church on Trinity Sunday, 6/16/19. The text was John 16:12-15. This is Holy Trinity Sunday. What comes to mind when you think of the Trinity—questions, confusion, a puzzle, a mystery? It seems to me that just when you think you have a bit of understanding, it all starts to unravel as you think of something else. This is a difficult concept to wrap our minds around. For centuries, the early church struggled with a right and proper interpretation and understanding as they formulated the doctrine of the Trinity. The more I read, the more I see the wisdom of Dr. Jerry Christianson who taught The Early Church and its Creeds my first year of seminary. He explained the Trinity as a love relationship between the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Just as God is all about relationship, so too the Christian life is all about relationship: our relationship with God, our relationship with each other and our relationship with our community.
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Interruptions are always urgent. The telephone is the rudest thing in the world. But if our entire lives are controlled by them, then a significant part of ministry remains undone because God rarely hollers, "Have a minute?" when it comes to prayer, thinking, and understanding truth.
Sometimes we just have to decide to interrupt our interruptions.
That said, if somebody does get your attention, then for everybody's sake, give them all of it.
Peace.