Sunday’s Coming

Wombs and tombs (Pentecost B) (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:22-27)

God’s Spirit before birth and after death

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The Pentecost lessons offer an interesting juxtaposition between Ezekiel’s valley of the dry bones and Paul’s image of the church and the whole creation groaning with labor pains.