Pentecost - This Sunday
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I think about it's meaning, but I'm always aware of the gift of the Holy Spirit.
For I could not teach - I could not love - I could not truly forgive - I could not even worship fully without having received this Gift. He is my power. He is my strength. He is my wisdom and revelation.
Celebrate Him everyday.
For I could not teach - I could not love - I could not truly forgive - I could not even worship fully without having received this Gift. He is my power. He is my strength. He is my wisdom and revelation.
Celebrate Him everyday.
Happy Pentecost everyone!
Happy Shavuot everyone!
May we always be thankful for, and celebrate God giving His people His written word (Torah) and a different manifestation of the Holy Spirit!
Question to ponder: Why were the disciples gathered together in Acts chapter 2 when God saw fit to bring His Holy Spirit down?
Happy Shavuot everyone!
May we always be thankful for, and celebrate God giving His people His written word (Torah) and a different manifestation of the Holy Spirit!
Question to ponder: Why were the disciples gathered together in Acts chapter 2 when God saw fit to bring His Holy Spirit down?
Yes I celibrate Pentecost as the day God the Holy Spirit entered into those who believed in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, making us one with God. The birth of the Church.
In Judaism it is called Shavuot and celebrates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the nation of Israel at mount Sinai. The feast of weeks I believe it is called.
In Judaism it is called Shavuot and celebrates the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to the nation of Israel at mount Sinai. The feast of weeks I believe it is called.
Our church decided to do it's bulletin with a Memorial Day theme (groan) so I wrote their Central Assembly...
To those who chose the Church Bulletin Theme:
I noticed that the theme for Sunday's Bulletin was Memorial Day a National holiday.
It also happened to fall on Pentecost Sunday a truly historical day as it marks the day the Church began.
Why are we opting for nationalism over our own history as the Church?
Polls today show many Evangelical Christians do not even know what Pentecost Sunday is about...and it is a small wonder.
It's a tell-tale sign of apostasy when a Church let's go of her heritage to image the State.
Sincerely,
Richard xxxxx
To those who chose the Church Bulletin Theme:
I noticed that the theme for Sunday's Bulletin was Memorial Day a National holiday.
It also happened to fall on Pentecost Sunday a truly historical day as it marks the day the Church began.
Why are we opting for nationalism over our own history as the Church?
Polls today show many Evangelical Christians do not even know what Pentecost Sunday is about...and it is a small wonder.
It's a tell-tale sign of apostasy when a Church let's go of her heritage to image the State.
Sincerely,
Richard xxxxx
We talked about Pentecost Sunday in church and someone read Acts 2, even though the sermon was not on that topic.
I was saved on Pentecost Sunday, 35 years ago. It will always be a special Sunday to me! God is so good, he sent the Holy Spirit at the birth of the church, to indwell believers till Jesus returns.
Looking forward to the day I see Christ face to face.
"Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[ we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." 1 John 2:3
I was saved on Pentecost Sunday, 35 years ago. It will always be a special Sunday to me! God is so good, he sent the Holy Spirit at the birth of the church, to indwell believers till Jesus returns.
Looking forward to the day I see Christ face to face.
"Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears[ we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is." 1 John 2:3
From an OT perspective it was celebrated thus:
Dt 16:9-12
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
KJV
From a Church perspective I think it is more important to remember that it commemorates our empowerment and enablement to live a life that is pleasing to God
IMO, that we remember is more important than how we remember.
Dt 16:9-12
Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
KJV
From a Church perspective I think it is more important to remember that it commemorates our empowerment and enablement to live a life that is pleasing to God
IMO, that we remember is more important than how we remember.
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a great question, KohenMatt.
the short answer is that they were all in 'unity' - like it states, They were all there with one accord.'
what Godly joy that all must have felt!
as it was commanded, as in the days of old, they didn't keep it according to the 'dictates of their own hearts'
like the Word says, 'let us all speak the same thing, for if we do not, there is confusion and babble and
every wind of doctrine will be blowing amongst the brethren and that rushing mighty wind spoken of in Acts,
becomes a breath of death.....
a great question, KohenMatt.
the short answer is that they were all in 'unity' - like it states, They were all there with one accord.'
what Godly joy that all must have felt!
as it was commanded, as in the days of old, they didn't keep it according to the 'dictates of their own hearts'
like the Word says, 'let us all speak the same thing, for if we do not, there is confusion and babble and
every wind of doctrine will be blowing amongst the brethren and that rushing mighty wind spoken of in Acts,
becomes a breath of death.....