-our confidence- Some of Jesus’ last words to the disciples were: ‘you will receive power.’ And so, on the day of Pentecost, Peter, ready-fire-aim Peter, mouth-engaged-before-brain Peter, stood before several…
Mission completed. Day 40 of 40 arrived. No more time together. No more face-to-face teaching. No more familiar fellowship. It was another chilling ending, another scary beginning. Following Jesus now…
Jesus chose diminishment for our flourishing. His mission was divine love at its human best. He epitomized sublime servanthood and elevated downward mobility to the holiest of lifestyles. His determined…
The unleashing of the Holy Spirit was a great pushing forward. It pushed the disciples forward along a path with no clear next steps. It pushed crowds of new believers…
The Pentecost pyrotechnics in that upper room were the prelude, not the main event. They signaled the birthing of Jesus’ church and brought his disciples front and center in a…
PENTECOST SUNDAY The Pentecost Event was an incisive Kingdom invasion, with Jesus not waiting for the disciples to attain to a state of full readiness. It was clearly a ready-or-not…
Forever in the heart of God was restoring to relationship the people he had created. This plan, to redeem humanity from the darkness of God-absence, was announced in Genesis 3:15: “And…
For Jesus’ disciples, the Pentecost event initiated in them, gave birth through them, Jesus’ Church. For us, Pentecost shapes, gives current expression to, the Church into which we were born.…
In the weeks and months following Pentecost there was, in the hearts of the disciples, a hyper-tangible sense of the realness, the immediacy, of the inside-of-them, superpower in the person…
The fire and fury of Pentecost was the needful, mesmerizing introduction to the taking up of residence of the Holy Spirit in the day in, day out, lives of Jesus’…
