Tag: Pentecost

  • Dan

    Prayer for the Day as We Head into Pentecost Sunday

    Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people and kindle in us the fire of your love. All who are led by the Spirit are children of God and fellow-heirs with Christ. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your people.  Renew the face of your creation, Lord, pouring on us the gifts of your Spirit. and kindle in…

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    On This Date

    An interesting tidbit to go with my hero preachers for Black History Month. This is the date that William Seymour first arrived in Los Angeles. Here is MORE about this great man of God.

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    When the Spirit Comes

    The wind of the Spirit is powerful. What happens when you’re IN a hurricane wind is vital. Obviously, most of the time, the best idea is to avoid the hurricane wind. N.T Wright describes it this way: It’s important that someone somewhere is tracking the hurricane and telling us what it’s doing, but when it comes to Pentecost it’s far…

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    Today on Pentecost Sunday BE the Church God Intended

    We need a refreshing touch, a new outpouring. We need a fresh reminder of how much we need him, and how lame our efforts are without him. We make too much noise and think it’s God. We need the NOISE of a mighty wind that makes it clear… this is God. When Pentecost Day arrived, they were all together in one…

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    Meditations on the Holy Spirit

    With Pentecost Sunday upon us, I am dwelling on some great thoughts about the person and work of the Spirit. The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself…this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is…

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    The Witness of History

    I had the pleasure of sitting with Vinson Synan at breakfast in March at Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is an incredible man and wonderful conversationalist. This interview has a few of his reflections regarding the witness of Pentecost he has personally seen in the past several decades. One comment stands out for me as a Pentecostal pastor. The questions…