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2020/05/31 By Barry Leave a Comment

What does Pentecost have to do with today?

Pentecost is one of those days that can be tricky to handle. What is there to say about Pentecost that hasn’t been said a thousand times before. Is there anything to say about it other than maybe it is the birthday of the church, or tongues of fire are pretty cool, or even back then […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year A Tagged With: Acts 2, fire, holy spirit, Pentecost, preaching, spritual gifts

2019/06/09 By Barry Leave a Comment

An annual thing

 It is good to be back. I was gone last week attending the 145th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. It was a good, if exhausting, time and I strongly encourage you to give the web site for the Assembly a look if you want to know what happened, etc., click this link […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C Tagged With: day of pentecost, divine, holy spirit, miraculous, Pentecost, preaching

2018/05/20 By Barry Leave a Comment

Not just tongues of fire

 Pentecost is more than tongues of fire and the colour red. Pentecost is the time we have set aside to pay attention to the new way the Holy Spirit decided to interact with people. Many of us can picture the scene, a wind inside a closed house, tongues of fire on people’s heads, people being […]

Filed Under: Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B Tagged With: advocate, holy spirit, Jesus, Joh, paraclete, Paraclete Sayings, Pentecost, preaching

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