Rev. Zach

Sermon Delivered July 8, 2012 – Pentecost (6B)  2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10 Acts 5:27-42 Luke 2:1-15 There are some things in this life that you just can’t stop. We like to think that we can control and channel the elements of nature - and to some extent we always have. Crops have used the power of the sun and rain to feed our families. Winds have been harnessed to blow ships through the sea and air for centuries. We have even used the gravitational pull of the earth to balance out the thrust and and extension of our hand into the depths of space. We can do all of these things. We have done all of these things, and we will do more. But we still can’t stop the tide. We can use inertia, but we cannot change the fact that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Likewise, we can not always predict the reaction we are going to illicit! When it works the way we want it to we call that a job well done. When the reaction exceeds our expectations we might even call it provid...