Today is Pentecost Sunday and as I type the wind is putting on a real display, even by Saskatchewan standards. It is almost too bad I didn’t preach about the “sound like the rush of a violent wind” that kicks off the Pentecost story. What I did preach about was the connection between the Old…
I have been rethinking Pentecost. It is almost never a bad thing to re-think what we know well. The things we know well, or at least think we know well, never get rethought, which can be too bad. Perhaps you thought the same way about Pentecost as I did. “Indoor wind, tongues of fire (whatever…
The Day of Pentecost is two things. First, it is the birth of the Christian church. Admittedly, the church that began then was considerably different than the church we see now but they are connected in an unbroken chain. Second, it was a new manifestation of the Holy Spirit. It was a new manifestation, not…