The Ugly Truth, the Beautiful Truth
May 20th, 2018
Pentecost Sunday
There was an old television show called To Tell the Truth. By means of questions and answers, the panel was to guess which of the three contestants was the real subject. This, of course, meant that the other two had to lie their way through their answers. In many ways, we are confronted with the same struggle between the truth and the lie every day. On Sunday we celebrate the coming and work of God the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity. Jesus calls Him “the Spirit of truth.” Working through the Scriptures, God reveals the truth—both the ugly truth and the beautiful truth. The ugly truth is that we are sinners. The beautiful truth is that in Jesus, God has forgiven our sin and has come to bring us eternal life. The Spirit says through the prophet Ezekiel, “You shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves,” and “I will put My Spirit within you, and you shall live” (Ezekiel 37:13–14). The Day of Pentecost demonstrated that no barriers of language or anything else in all creation can hinder God’s will to speak the Good News of the Gospel to the whole world.
See You Sunday! Pastor Phil
2018 VPK GRADUATION EXERCISE
PLAN TO ATTEND!
WHEN: MAY 20TH @ 9:15AM
WHERE: RIGHT HERE IN THE CHURCH!
Email: office@victorylutheran.org
Website: www.victorylutheran.org
Location: 4651 Kernan Boulevard South, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Phone: 904-307-6717
Prayer Requests
Gary Fisher:
Home recovering from two surgeries.
Gary Peterson:
Will undergo radiation treatment to shrink the sarcoma located on his bicep.
Edna Robb:
Sister of John Harvey, wrestling with leukemia and on a ventilator in Philadelphia.
John Grotefend:
battling prostate cancer.
“I am your Shield and Exceedingly Great Reward” - Gen 15:1