As this Sunday is Pentecost Sunday, we will be moving backwards in the narrative to Acts 2, which begins “When the day of Pentecost had come…” That is my continual reminder that what we know as Pentecost is not what the disciples in the story knew as Pentecost. It was an already existing holiday celebrating the first fruit of the harvest and the receiving of the Torah, called Shavuot, and “Pentecost” is merely the Greek form of the Hebrew “Shavuot”. I preached all about that last year, so this year I will be taking a different angle. Which way will he go? Is he going to talking about the wind? The fire? The “tongues”? The “blood moon”? You’ll just have to watch to find out! -Pastor Paul
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