{"id":2505,"date":"2021-05-23T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/easter-7-may-16-2021-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-05-19T10:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:14:15","slug":"pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost Sunday – May 23, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMusic for the Dance\u201d – John 15\/16<\/strong><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

1. Literary comparisons to Jesus<\/h4>\n

Various authors have described the life, death and resurrection of Jesus using unique comparisons. For instance, in his Chronicles of Narnia<\/u>, C. S. Lewis used the killing of the lion, Aslan, on the Stone Table at the hands of the White Witch, and Aslan\u2019s return to life the next morning to parallel the story of Jesus.<\/p>\n

For those of you who are fans of J. R. R. Tolkien\u2019s Lord of the Rings<\/u>, Jesus is there, too, in that story of the ultimate battle between good and evil in Middle Earth. While there may be no one complete, concrete, visible Christ-figure in that trilogy, some have identified reflections of Jesus, facets of His personality, in three of the heroes: Gandalf, Frodo and Aragorn. They exemplify that three-fold Old Testament Messianic symbolism of prophet (Gandalf), priest (Frodo), and king (Aragorn).<\/p>\n

It was just over 45 years ago that Baptist author Calvin Miller first published his book, The Singer<\/u>. It is a classic and powerful retelling of the life of Jesus Christ. In the somewhat poetically-styled story, Jesus is cast as a singer, and the Gospel is his song. He begins as a Tradesman, but his true nature is as the Troubadour or Singer who created the universe with the words of His Star-Song. The Singer encounters His enemy, the World-Hater many times during His travels, but He knows that His purpose is to captivate people with His Star-Song, and to heal the minds and the bodies of those He meets along the way.<\/p>\n

In a journey similar to Jesus\u2019 Palm Sunday entrance into Jerusalem, the Singer goes to the Great Walled City of the Ancient King. That city\u2019s people practice the old, traditional religion. The Singer frees the Madman with His Song, but that serves to stir up a crowd, and to anger the Musicians of the old religion. Together they kill the Singer on the Great Machine of Death – a torture rack. The Singer\u2019s mother and one person He had healed go to comfort the Madman, while the Singer comes back alive, rising from the crumpled ruins of the Machine of Death.<\/p>\n

Miller\u2019s sequel is called the Song, and it parallels the Book of Acts.\u00a0 The Song is about the battle between the World Hater and those who hear, embrace, and try to pass on the Singer\u2019s Star-Song. As the former Madman is changed into Anthem via a Holy Spirit entity called the Invader, the World Hater renames himself Sarkon and reinvents a religion to compete for people\u2019s hearts.<\/p>\n

After Anthem speaks to a crowd in the marketplace, the Invader enters hundreds of people in a way similar to Pentecost in the Bible. In retaliation, Sarkon uses knowledge and science to distract Everyman from the Star-Song of the Singer and those who follow His way of life. Anthem uses the Singer\u2019s name to reveal the lies of Sarkon, and Everyman embraces the Song. Sarkon uses more trickery to arouse the city crowds to attack the followers of the Singer. Given a vision, Anthem and Everyman leave the Great Walled City and head to Urbis, the capital of the world. This reminds us of Paul\u2019s missionary journeys, and specifically Paul\u2019s going to Rome to preach the Good News of Jesus.<\/p>\n

A third volume of Calvin Miller\u2019s three-fold story is called \u201cThe Finale\u201d and it is an allegory of the Book of Revelation in the Bible.<\/p>\n

So, why all these story comparisons to the life and ministry, the death and resurrection of Jesus? Because today I want to use another comparison to illustrate how the Holy Spirit – given on that first Pentecost Day – leads and guides and shapes our lives to present Jesus to our world. The comparison is to that of \u201cMusic for the Dance\u201d – the sermon title – and it relates most closely to Miller\u2019s Singer and Song stories and images.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2. Dancing<\/h4>\n

In the olden days – and you can imagine for yourself when those olden days were – some Christians did not dance. They considered dancing to be immoral, especially if you were dancing with someone that you weren\u2019t married to. It could lead to lust, and lust could lead to adultery, so better not to dance at all – not even at a family wedding. [Oh, and some Christians still today consider dancing to be wrong. Maybe it\u2019s still the olden days.] For some reason, my dad never learned to dance. So, when he and my mom got married, even though she was open to dancing, she decided NOT to dance – so that my dad wouldn\u2019t get jealous of her dancing with someone else, watching to see how close they got, or to see how much fun my mom was having with another man, and not knowing what they were talking about. Somehow, though, I learned to dance some polkas and waltzes at those family weddings, and you could always tell who really felt the music. They didn\u2019t have to think about it, they just did it, they moved to the music, and you could tell they were having fun. I went to some of those high school dances where all you did was move your feet and your arms rather arbitrarily. In fact, I remember going to a dance in Grade 8. Linda was there, the girl with straight blonde hair, the girl I had a crush on. Alas, I was too shy to even ask her to dance, and then she went to a different high school, so I never did get to dance with her. In university, I took a Phys. Ed. department dance class, to improve my skills\u2026 and to get an easy credit!! Before Deanna and I got married, we took a ballroom dance class together, so we learned a few more dance steps – like the fox-trot, and the rumba, and the romantic tango. In my first parish, we joined a dance club in our little town, but most of the participants were old enough to be our grandparents. I still enjoy dancing.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

3. Dancing by the book<\/h4>\n

But imagine this\u2026 imagine that you didn\u2019t have any dancing experience while you were growing up, and now you want to learn to dance. So, you go to a bookstore, or to the library and you get a book on dancing. Oh\u2026 no\u2026 that\u2019s the olden days way. These days, you google it, and find an online resource to teach you how to dance… because google can teach you how to install a new toilet, or how to make a delicious beef dip, or how to prune your blueberry plants. So, google can surely teach you how to dance.<\/p>\n

You call up the site, and get to work. It says sway, and you sway. It says shuffle, and you shuffle. It says spin, and you spin. If it tells you to count to three for that waltz, you obediently count to three. If it tells you to do a box-step for that fox-trot, you cut out paper shoe patterns and place them around the floor so you\u2019ll know exactly where to step.<\/p>\n

Finally, when you think you\u2019ve got it, you invite your wife or husband to come in and watch. You look at the computer screen, and follow the instructions. Sway, lean, step, turn. You watch, dance, read, dance and then you\u2019re done, and you say to your wife, \u201cI executed it perfectly.\u201d<\/p>\n

She replies, \u201cYou executed it all right\u2026 you basically killed that dance!!\u201d<\/p>\n

You see, the trouble was – you forgot the most important part\u2026 the music!! You remembered the lesson. You learned the rules. You laid out the pattern. You executed the steps. But you forgot the music.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

4. Pentecost – the Holy Spirit as our music<\/h4>\n

Sometimes, as Christians, we are so concerned about the dance steps of our life of following Jesus that we completely ignore the music. We understand the chapters. We memorize the verses. We discuss the rules, and maybe even master the doctrines. We stiffly step down the dance floor of our Christian life, but we have no music in our hearts. We may do it right, but we don\u2019t feel the music inside. Using Calvin Miller\u2019s analogy, we have been distracted from the captivating Star-Song of the Singer. Pentecost is about the Invader, the Holy Spirit, the music-maker for the song of Jesus in our lives, the one who enables us to dance.<\/p>\n

We heard that account today from Acts chapter 2 – but not with music imagery. The Invader, the Spirit, was sent – accompanied by three supernatural signs – a sound, a sight, and strange speech. The sound was not the sound of music, but a mighty rushing wind. The sight was neither a band nor step patterns on the floor, but tongues of fire on the followers of Jesus. The strange speech was not the lyrics of the hottest new song, but the many languages which were spoken – all proclaiming the mighty works of God, the fulfilled sending of the promised Holy Spirit, and the precious message that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus will be saved.<\/p>\n

In the John 15 and 16 Gospel reading, we heard Jesus say that He would send the Helper, the Spirit of Truth, who proceeds from the Father. Now, if I asked you to describe the Heavenly Father, you would probably respond identifying God as the creator, maybe even YOUR creator, and the one who provides and protects and sustains you. If I asked you to tell me what Jesus did for you, you wouldn\u2019t hesitate to point to His suffering and death on the cross, and His resurrection from the tomb – all for your forgiveness and your redemption and your salvation. But if I were to ask you about the role of the Holy Spirit in your life\u2026 you might get a blank look on your face, your eyes would glaze over or maybe duck to the side, you might clear your throat, until you finally say, \u201cAsk Sam, or Sally\u2026 they know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of the three persons of the Godhead – oh, and that\u2019s next Sunday, Trinity Sunday – of the three persons of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit is the one we seem to understand the least. And the most common mistake is regarding the Spirit as a power, but not a person, as a mighty rushing wind or a tongue of fire, but with no identity. The Holy Spirit is not an \u201cit.\u201d The Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force – not Popeye\u2019s spinach, nor the surfer\u2019s wave, nor a KiloWatt of electrical power. The Holy Spirit is a person of the Godhead, just like the Father, just like the Son. That\u2019s why Jesus said, \u201cWhen the Helper comes\u2026 HE will bear witness about me,\u201d and \u201cI will send HIM to you.\u201d Maybe you\u2019ve seen this \u201cIntel Inside\u201d logo on a computer. Two thousand years ago, St. Paul\u2019s slogan was \u201cHoly Spirit Inside.\u201d That\u2019s what he wrote to the Corinthians – \u201cyour body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.\u201d The Holy Spirit is God inside you, within you to help you.<\/p>\n

<\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

5. What does the Holy Spirit do?<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s kind of like 30 years ago when I was helping my youngest daughter learn to ride a bicycle. She had already mastered pedaling and balancing with the training wheels on. Now it was time to set her free. She got on the bike on our little-traveled street. I was behind her, at the side, holding the seat of her bike. It was time to go. I pushed a little, and she started pedaling. It was wobbly at first, but I ran alongside and steadied her balance with my hand on the seat. As she got going a bit faster, she was able to go straight and I gently let go of the seat, but I still ran alongside to give her confidence, and to steady the bike if she got a bit wobbly again. After a while, I just got her going, and off she went by herself.<\/p>\n

The Holy Spirit does that for us. The Holy Spirit is our bike-riding teacher, or using today\u2019s analogy\u2026 our dance coach, AND the one who leads. But while I eventually let my daughter\u2019s bike go, the Holy Spirit never leaves us. What does Jesus say the Holy Spirit does?<\/p>\n

He points to Jesus. Jesus said, \u201cWhen the Helper comes, whom I will send\u2026 He will bear witness about me.\u201d That\u2019s what the Holy Spirit did, especially on that first Pentecost Day. The people gathered in Jerusalem heard the \u201cmighty works of God.\u201d St. Peter clarified: \u201cJesus of Nazareth was the one who did the mighty works of God. He was crucified and killed, but God raised Him up, and we are witnesses of that. You are witnesses that God\u2019s promised Holy Spirit has been poured out today. God has made this Jesus both Lord and Christ, the one who was crucified for the forgiveness of your sins. Everyone who calls upon Him will be saved.\u201d That\u2019s pointing to Jesus if you ask me. It\u2019s pointing YOU to Jesus. It\u2019s pointing you to His forgiveness for those times that you awkwardly and robotically and stiffly and maybe even half-heartedly dance your Christian life. For Jesus is also YOUR Lord and Christ, YOUR forgiver, YOUR Saviour. That\u2019s the primary work of the Holy Spirit – pointing people to Jesus, calling people to faith in Jesus. But there is more…<\/p>\n

He comforts the saved. Jesus said, \u201cWhen I go away, I will send the Helper to you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He convicts the lost. Jesus said, \u201cWhen the Helper comes, He will show the people of the world the truth about sin, about being right with God, and about judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n

He conveys the truth. Jesus said, \u201cWhen the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth.\u201d I found an inspirational little poem on this subject by the famous author\u2026 Author Unknown.\u00a0 It\u2019s called \u201cDancing with God\u201d and it goes like this:<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dancing With God<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing \u2018dance\u2019 at the end of the word.<\/p>\n

I remember reading that doing God\u2019s will is a lot like dancing.<\/p>\n

When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.<\/p>\n

The movement doesn’t flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.<\/p>\n

When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music.<\/p>\n

One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing lightly in one direction or another.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s as if two become one body, moving beautifully.<\/p>\n

The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other.<\/p>\n

My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.<\/p>\n

When I saw \u2018G,\u2019 I thought of God, followed by \u2018u\u2019 and \u2018I.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cGod, \u2018u\u2019 and \u2018I\u2019 dance.\u201d \u00a0God… you, and I dance.<\/p>\n

As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life.<\/p>\n

Once again I became willing to let God lead.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Going back to our analogy\u2026\u00a0 St. Paul wrote to the Romans that \u201cIf Christ is in you, then the Spirit gives you life.\u201d That is to say that the Holy Spirit provides the music for the dance of our lives of following Jesus. Is Paul saying that we don\u2019t need the book in order to dance? No\u2026 Paul helped write the book including those words about the Spirit, and disciple John recorded Jesus\u2019 words promising the Helper, and Luke, who wrote the book of Acts, described the sending of the Invader, complete with a sound, and a sight, and a speech that set the disciples to dancing, and singing the ancient Star-Song that the Singer first sang and taught.<\/p>\n

We need the book. We need to know the dance steps – the chapters, the verses, the doctrines. But we also need to hear the music that the Holy Spirit plays for us – the joy of believing, truly believing, that Jesus is Lord and Christ, that He died to forgive our sin, that He rose again to secure our salvation, that He\u2019s coming back one day to take us to His eternal home, OUR eternal home. All of that sets our hearts to dancing.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

6. Dancing in the Bible<\/h4>\n

Let me tell you about three occasions for dancing in the Bible. When the Israelites had crossed the Red Sea, escaping slavery in Egypt, and when the horses and chariots and horsemen of the Pharaoh all drowned in the sea, then Miriam and all the women danced – with music and tambourines.<\/p>\n

When the holy ark of God\u2019s covenant with the people of Israel was finally being brought into Jerusalem, King David danced before the Lord with unrestrained joy.<\/p>\n

When the run-away son in Jesus\u2019 parable returned home, his father called for a celebration – complete with the best robe for his lost son, and a ring, and sandals, and a fattened calf, with music and dancing.<\/p>\n

In each case, there was ample reason for that dancing. In each case, the people had the music of the Holy Spirit filling them with inexpressible joy. That\u2019s what this day is about – the joy of our salvation assured by Jesus\u2019 death and resurrection, and the music of the Holy Spirit setting our feet and our hearts and our lives a-dancing. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMusic for the Dance\u201d – John 15\/16   1. Literary comparisons to Jesus Various authors have described the life, death and resurrection of Jesus using unique comparisons. For instance, in his Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis used the killing of the lion, Aslan, on the Stone Table at the hands of the White Witch, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"yoast_head":"\nPentecost Sunday - May 23, 2021 - Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pentecost Sunday - May 23, 2021 - Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cMusic for the Dance\u201d – John 15\/16   1. Literary comparisons to Jesus Various authors have described the life, death and resurrection of Jesus using unique comparisons. For instance, in his Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis used the killing of the lion, Aslan, on the Stone Table at the hands of the White Witch, […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-23T20:00:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"janiceklassen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"janiceklassen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"13 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"janiceklassen\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3b3af25d25f1533c33671289bc6cba85\"},\"headline\":\"Pentecost Sunday – May 23, 2021\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-23T20:00:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":2972,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Sermons\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/\",\"name\":\"Pentecost Sunday - May 23, 2021 - Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-23T20:00:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3b3af25d25f1533c33671289bc6cba85\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Pentecost Sunday – May 23, 2021\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/\",\"name\":\"Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam\",\"description\":\"Active in Love, Growing in Christ\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3b3af25d25f1533c33671289bc6cba85\",\"name\":\"janiceklassen\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7e4d860b9949c54efc83021752a6d5f695c249cd481f5ba6a1737b015b6d0a47?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7e4d860b9949c54efc83021752a6d5f695c249cd481f5ba6a1737b015b6d0a47?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/7e4d860b9949c54efc83021752a6d5f695c249cd481f5ba6a1737b015b6d0a47?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"janiceklassen\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/hopelcs.ca\\\/church\\\/author\\\/janiceklassen\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Pentecost Sunday - May 23, 2021 - Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Pentecost Sunday - May 23, 2021 - Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam","og_description":"\u201cMusic for the Dance\u201d – John 15\/16   1. Literary comparisons to Jesus Various authors have described the life, death and resurrection of Jesus using unique comparisons. For instance, in his Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis used the killing of the lion, Aslan, on the Stone Table at the hands of the White Witch, […]","og_url":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/","og_site_name":"Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam","article_published_time":"2021-05-23T20:00:29+00:00","author":"janiceklassen","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"janiceklassen","Est. reading time":"13 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/"},"author":{"name":"janiceklassen","@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/#\/schema\/person\/3b3af25d25f1533c33671289bc6cba85"},"headline":"Pentecost Sunday – May 23, 2021","datePublished":"2021-05-23T20:00:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/"},"wordCount":2972,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Sermons"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/","url":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/","name":"Pentecost Sunday - May 23, 2021 - Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/#website"},"datePublished":"2021-05-23T20:00:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/#\/schema\/person\/3b3af25d25f1533c33671289bc6cba85"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-sunday-may-23-2021\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Pentecost Sunday – May 23, 2021"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/#website","url":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/","name":"Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam","description":"Active in Love, Growing in Christ","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/#\/schema\/person\/3b3af25d25f1533c33671289bc6cba85","name":"janiceklassen","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e4d860b9949c54efc83021752a6d5f695c249cd481f5ba6a1737b015b6d0a47?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e4d860b9949c54efc83021752a6d5f695c249cd481f5ba6a1737b015b6d0a47?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7e4d860b9949c54efc83021752a6d5f695c249cd481f5ba6a1737b015b6d0a47?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"janiceklassen"},"url":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/author\/janiceklassen\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}