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Holy Spirit come down music  lyrics  mp3 Powerpoint file

This new song has a "latino" feel. The chorus, quite deliberately has the options of each phrase not only beingty echoed, but 3-part harmony throughout. In a small way, an echo of Pentecost, as many and varied voices sang their praise to God. Try ... and enjoy. Dale (my wife) is currently down with the flu - the clarinet and tenor sax carry the main melody line in the chorus and verses

When the Spirit is moving music  lyrics  mp3 snippet

That Spirit touch music   lyrics

Spirit come music   lyrics mp3 snippet

Together to Celebrate music score  lyrics   mp3

(C) David MacGregor

Day of Pentecost - Year A

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Numbers 11:24-30

11:24-26 So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent.  Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.  Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad, and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, and so they prophesied in the camp

John 20:19-23  

19-23 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you."  After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.  Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you."  When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.  If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

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John 7:37-39 

On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, "Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,  and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, 'Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.'"  Now he said this about the Spirit, which believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13   

12:3b-7 No one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.  Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;  and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord;  and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.  To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

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Acts 2:1-21

Psalm 104:24-34, 35b

104:24 O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures ... 29-31 When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.  When you send forth your spirit, they are created; and you renew the face of the ground. May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works--

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Key to abbreviations / Resources

Some links to more 'traditional' resources . . .

• The Billabong - Jeff Shrowder's Worship Resources

• GATHERING - The United Church of Canada

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