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It is a miracle…that a man should have risen again in the flesh and ascended into heaven with his flesh; but it is a greater miracle that the whole world should have believed something so unbelievable.
– Augustine, sermon 272A

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021

The Lord Christ humbled himself, so that we might know how to be humble. Though containing all things he was conceived; though giving birth to all things he was born; though giving life to all things he died…
– Augustine, sermon 272A

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021

Pentecost Lectionary:
Valley of Dry Bones
Sending of the Spirit
Psalm of Creation
Groaning of the Spirit
Jesus on why he must leave

The lectionary is your friend.
Use it!

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021

Augustine, to a newly baptized group, about to take the Eucharist for the first time: pic.twitter.com/APecCyqow6

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021

That gust was purging their hearts of worldly chaff; that fire consuming the straw of ancient lusts; those tongues they were speaking in, filled by the Holy Spirit, were prefiguring the Church of the future through the languages of all nations. – Augustine, sermon 271#pentecost

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021

What the soul is the body, the Holy Spirit is to the body of Christ. – Augustine, sermon 267.4#Pentecost

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021

They were new wineskins, the new wine was expected from heaven; and it came. That great bunch of grapes, after all, had already been trodden and glorified. – Augustine, sermon 267.1#Pentecost

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 18, 2021

The Spirit is given to us so that God’s work may be done through us. – NT Wright in a sermon for Pentecost (May 23) 2010#Pentecost

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021

A regular feature of Augustine's Pentecost sermons is his suggestion that the Church itself is a miracle on par with the resurrection.

— Eric Dirksen (@EricJDirksen) May 19, 2021

It is simply incredible to me having read Goldberg, Lasch, Bawer, Rieff, and Gurri how tightly intertwined their central concerns were and are. Loss of structure, performative therapeutics, information tsunami in a technological Eden. Affective despair leading to nihilism. pic.twitter.com/WkjfO8odAQ

— J.D. Haltigan, PhD 🏒👨‍💻 (@JDHaltigan) May 19, 2021

When I was a pastor I NEVER taught that God made a baby or gave someone a baby.

Even though the Bible intimates that.

Why?
Because sex makes a baby.
Sperm, egg, PiV.

What role does a deity play in that? None that I can see, other than the raw materials.

— Mike the Therapist 🌈 (@sacwriter) May 19, 2021