if anyone can write a good punchline, it has to be God. Winnipeggers want to let you in on the joke, too. They’ve made it through winters that make Siberia look like a beach resort. Their summers are spent dodging blood-sucking
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together. And suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind, and it filled the entire house in which they were. Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, ...
For this reason, I’m not sure how I feel about celebrating “secular” holidays as a church. The obvious advantage of celebrating decidedly Christian holidays in Christian worship is that EVERY Christian can equally celebrate Christmas, Epiphany, Holy Week, Ascension, and Pentecost. The same simp...
Lev 23:17 You shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals; they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; they are the first fruits to the LORD. The first fruits are Christ (pure, no sin ie: leaven), the church is Pentecost (with sin, ...
The time is coming when there will be as many converted in a day as there were on the Day of Pentecost, after the disciples had received the Holy Spirit.—Evangelism, 692 (1905). on Come Jesus Christ-Your Maker! -His Voice Only Listen Safe!
They signal the culture, beliefs, circumstances of birth and hope for the future. Now, there is also this bloke in another clan. His name is Pentecost. Like “the-day-of- Pentecost” Pentecost. His parents are devout. But not Pentecost. If he is spirit-filled, it is often with kai-...
The charismatic movement unhelpfully puts tongues as the evidence for the Holy Spirit. Although the Pentecost experience of Acts 2 involved speaking in new tongues (languages) this description does not mean that it would happen again or in the same way every time. Jesus who was full of the ...
I base this theologically on the fact that at Pentecost the Spirit was poured out on aaaaaalll flesh. The Spirit’s leading doesn’t occur only in staff or elder’s meetings. Rather, any voice is a potential location for articulating the calling of the Spirit, and at the very least is...
In the Vetus Ordo we read this passage on the Vigil of Pentecost. It makes sense to connect it here. At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: 15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, to be with...
an opportunity to congratulate our graduating seniors and wish them well as they take leave from the Tiger Nation. Senior Week often lines up with the church calendar’s celebration of Pentecost, the moment when Jesus ascended to His Father in heaven and left the disciples feeling anxious, unmoo...