Red: Week 2 - Daily Reflection Thursday, October 15, 2015
This is the second week of daily devotions reflecting on the sermon series that I'm currently preaching, "Red: Understanding the Hard Sayings of Jesus." This week we are reflecting on what it means to recognize the Holy Spirit working, moving, creating and inspiring in the world around us. Every Sunday at the traditional worship service of my church we read as part of our liturgy an "Affirmation of Faith." Typically, we rotate between three different historic "creeds" of the Church: The Apostle's Creed, The Nicene Creed and the French Reformed Creed (which we use mostly on Sundays when we celebrate communion). Each creed is a bit different in language and form, but not that dissimilar in substance. They all affirm the same basic Christian beliefs about God, the church, sacraments and community. And each contains very distinct language affirming the Christian belief in the Trinity. The Trinity is one of the most mysterious and cha...