Podcast appearances and mentions of christian pentecost

Pentecost Sunday c. 33 A.D. Sunday after the Seventh Sunday of Easter Solemnity; Liturgical Color: Red Happy Birthday, Church! All living things have a birthday. The Church is a living organism and Pentecost is her birthday. Pentecost was a Jewish Feast Day. The author of the Acts of the Apostles identifies the day before the Holy Spirit ever descended. But Semitic Pentecost immediately acquired a new and perennial Christian meaning when the wind swirled and wisps of flame descended upon the heads of the Apostles in the upper room in Jerusalem. In a frightening display of God's raw and awesome power, the Lord and Giver of Life, as the Nicene Creed defines the Holy Spirit, vivified the nascent Church with fire. The Church is still vivified by that same Spirit which has never left the room. Every living thing has an esprit de corps: there is team spirit, company culture, a platoon's bravado, an orchestra's élan, or the country spirit known as patriotism. As a living thing, the Catholic Church has a Spirit too, one which indwells in her more fully than in any other Church. The Holy Spirit stamps Catholicism with a trademark of authenticity. It guarantees the Church's fidelity to the God who gave her life. The dramatic events of the first Christian Pentecost have linked, not illogically, the Holy Spirit with spontaneity, impetuosity, miracle working, supernatural gifts, and high octane evangelization. When a throng of Christians thunders praise and makes the ground tremble, no one attributes the heaving to God the Father. When a tumor disappears and a first-class sinner publicly weeps in repentance, or when upraised hands wave to and fro, heads jut toward the sky above, bodies sway, and pores drip sweat in the heat of the night, all agree that the Holy Spirit is pulsating in sync with the mighty deeds of God. And yet…there is also the still, small voice of the Prophet Elijah. There is also the Monday morning and the Thursday afternoon. Not every day is a rollicking God party. Few days, in fact, involve rollicking God parties. Everyday life is not a crashing wave. It's more like a constant tide, rising and receding at regular intervals. The Church is often as mundane as everyday life because she is part and parcel of everyday life, as a real religion should be. And so the Church's Holy Spirit is vitally present in the tide of everydayness just as she is present in the racket of a Saturday night bash. The Holy Spirit is a spirit of unity, drawing all people toward the flame of truth. The Holy Spirit is not an alternate third column creating ‘churches of one' who speak only for themselves. Christ truly desires that His followers be one, “as we are one” (Jn 17:11). The Church's unity is forged out of human diversity through a visible structure which channels the Holy Spirit through the Sacraments and their sanctifying graces. Structure and Spirit indwell. The Church's visible nature embodies the Holy Spirit in the same fashion that an Independence Day parade with its well-known leaders and predictable route embodies a country's patriotism. The tightly choreographed pattern walked by the smartly uniformed soldier at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier causes citizens to stand in respectful silence and their hearts to swell with pride for their nation because the ceremony makes visible what is otherwise only vaguely felt. Public rituals express communally what otherwise remains emotionally elusive and difficult for individuals to verbalize. The same applies for the role of the Holy Spirit in the Church.Watching the incense slowly rise over the altar at a solemn Mass, whispering on our knees in the deep quiet of the confessional, lighting a candle at the Grotto of Lourdes, or walking and praying as the Corpus Christi procession moves slowly forward are tangible experiences of a living Church. It is in moments such as these that we feel intensely the presence of the Holy Spirit. If we didn't feel the Spirit in these events, we would not feel His presence at all, or we would not be sure it was not, instead, just powerful auto-suggestion at work. The Church protects us from such illusions.At Pentecost the Holy Spirit did not descend as a communal bonfire. The one Spirit of God parted and came to rest on each of the Apostles individually. The lesson? We each receive our share of God. God is the answer to the question that is every human soul. And God comes to us through a Church, not willy nilly in sweat and song. A tongue of fire is lit in every soul at baptism. We each house an eternal flame burning deep within. That flame will never be extinguished, even at death. Our personal flame of the Spirit, lit in our soul by the Church at baptism, will never die, because the Lord and Giver of Life is eternal. He waits patiently to gather together again every spark and flame that ever parted from Him into the one great conflagration of love that is the never-ending Pentecost of heaven. Come Holy Ghost, Creator blest, fill the soul of every guest with that fire of love searing Father to Son. Hovering over the Apostles in flames of grace, You made a new high summit, the upper room, the source of unity for the human race. Holy Spirit come.

Pastor Royce Ruiz preached on Pentecost Sunday, also known as the Birthday of the Church.  Preaching from Deuteronomy and Acts, Pastor Royce shared three theological truths of Pentecost and three imperatives of Pentecost.  The three truths are:1) Christian Pentecost undoes Babel2) Christian Pentecost gives us a better law3) Christian Pentecost changes the location of the temple.Three imperatives are:1) Call on the Name of the Lord and be saved!2) Conduct your life in a manner befitting to the temple of God!3) Carry the Gospel in Power!

Rev. Peter Ill, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Millstadt, Illinois, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the connection of Pentecost in the New Testament to Shavuot in Old Testament, what happened at Pentecost that is still celebrated by the Church today, and what traditions commemorate this feast. This is a rebroadcast from June 5, 2019.

Story Time Podcast presents the murder of Frank Rodriguez. Frank Rodriguez was a man who did everything he could to provide a safe and stable life. He was a devout Christian Pentecost with desires of someday being married with a family. He'd once been married but they were young and it did not work out. Then one day something sparked with a woman he met at work named Angelina. Angelina seemed perfect for Frank. It was as if God sent her himself. It was TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE...because it wasn't true. Angelina was a 3x married con artist who had presented herself as everything Frank was looking for. She wooed him, they had a whirlwind romance & married quickly. However, after 4 months of marriage a perfectly healthy Frank dropped DEAD! What is striking about this case is that had Angelina not been so greedy...she likely would have gotten away with murdering Frank. && even more shocking is the lengths she was willing to go to be set free. SOURCES https://www.amazon.com/Taste-Murder-Burl-Barer-ebook/dp/B01AM3IGUA https://www.pasadenastarnews.com/2015/01/23/how-greed-kept-one-woman-from-getting-away-with-her-husbands-murder/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haleigh44/support

On that first Christian Pentecost, Peter was the interpreter who answered the crowd’s question about the meaning of the translation. He addressed the people and told them about Jesus and about salvation.In other words, the communication miracle of Pentecost happened because the Holy Spirit translated and Peter interpreted. Has it ever occurred to you that both translation and interpretation are still necessary to the spread of Christianity?Scripture reading:  Acts 2:1-20Pastor Tom Strandburg, preacher.------------The special music in today's podcast is "Der Heilig Geist vom Himmel kam" by Johannes Eccard (1553–1611), sung by members of the MLUMC choir. The German text and an English translation are given below.Der heilig Geist vom Himmel kam, mit Brausen das ganz Haus einnahm, darin die Jünger sassen; Gott wollt sie nicht verlassen. O welch ein selig Fest ist der Pfingesttag gewest! Gott sende noch jetzt undin unser Herz und Mund sein heil'gen Geist! Das sei ja, das sei ja, so singen wir Halleluja!The Holy Spirit came from heaven, showering down upon the entire house wherein the disciples were seated; truly God had not left them.O what a happy remembrance is this Day of Pentecost! God even now sends – and into our hearts and mouths – this Holy Spirit! Yes, indeed; yes, indeed, Therefore let us sing Hallelujah!------------Music permission obtained from ONELICENSE: A-700887. All rights reserved.Support the show (https://secure.accessacs.com/access/oglogin.aspx?sn=112595&f=107)

This weekend marks one of the most important occasions in the history of the Christian Church. It is the day of Pentecost, and you may not know that it is actually a lot older than the church. Considering what happened on that day, I am surprised that there are so many Christians who know so little about it and what it signifies. Consider one statement from the book of Acts to explain what I mean: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they [the disciples of Jesus] were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1 KJV Now, that the disciples were there observing the festival is beyond dispute. They were all Israelites, they had observed this festival all their lives, and there was absolutely nothing in all the teachings of Jesus up to this point to suggest any change in that practice. In fact, there were three pilgrimage festivals—that is, feasts where they were expected to come to Jerusalem to worship at the Temple. They were Passover, Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles. So they were there. (Jesus had told them to wait in the city and not return home.) There is one curious thing about this feast. The other two occur on specific dates. But no date is specified for Pentecost. So, how do you know when it has fully come and finally arrived? Well, you have to count. We’ll find out how in Leviticus, chapter 23.

Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul. I will praise the Lord all my life. The Lord reigns forever, your God, O [church], for all generations. Praise the Lord! (Psalm 146:1, 2, 10). Welcome to September! Are you excited? I expect most of us feel more trepidation than excitement. What will this month bring? What will be the results of children and youth going back to school? Let alone, adults to university and college? We have been spending some time in the end of the book of Psalms. Its tempting to go elsewhere to mark the beginning of September and everything this month entails. However, these psalms may just offer us the exact spiritual discipline we need to navigate the raging waters that are predicted to come our way this fall. When we think of the spiritual disciplines, what often comes to mind are prayer, scripture reading, silence, retreats. But that's a rather narrow perspective. The Bible, it seems to me, includes a more robust list. One of which is the discipline of praising God. ‘Praise the Lord,' is the resounding call of these psalms. Its a discipline we ought to take up. Most often we only lift our praises when we feel like it. But these psalms do not ask us if we feel like it. They tell us to “Praise the Lord!” Just do it! Notice how the Psalmist begins, “Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul!” Is it possible that the psalmist doesn't really feel like doing either? Thus, he has to remind himself to get to it. Just to do it! And then he makes this commitment, “I will praise the Lord all my life.” This is why I say that praising God is a spiritual discipline. We need to commit ourselves to doing it, whether we want to or not. Once upon a time, I preached a sermon on Psalm 146 in which I encouraged my listeners to be more diligent in evangelism. At first glance that may seem odd, but I think I was on the right track. The word evangelism still scares many us. We see it as something separate from the rest of our faith; something we will get to once we are ready or mature enough, or the Spirit has made us bold enough. It conjures up the image of trying to convince strangers to become Christians. The Bible persistently gives a different slant to evangelism. The word means ‘to tell a great story or news.' If our favourite sports team wins the championship, we like to tell stories of how it happened. And who hasn't heard the story of the fish that just keeps getting bigger? The Hebrew verb for praise, HALAL, means to make a show, to boast, to rave, to celebrate, perhaps even to be clamorously foolish--an image that may offer a fair description of the exultant experience of the first Christian Pentecost. Add the Hebrew word for God to Halal and we get Hallelujah! These psalms tell us to declare the things that God has done. That is how Israel used them. There were sung as expressions of the joy of the exiles coming home from Babylon. God had set them free. He had brought them home. The story needed to be told. Likewise, evangelism is telling good news, stories of hope. Therefore, Psalm 146 gives helpful advice for us. Evangelism begins with a commitment to praise God. When our goal is to declare the praise of God every day, someone is bound to hear it. It is true that some Christians have special gifts in evangelism. The church does well to send these people out as missionaries and evangelists. But all of us have the ability to tell stories about what God has done; stories about salvation in Jesus Christ. These are the stories we ought to tell this fall. As the world seems to be heading ever deeper into chaos, we need to remember that there is a larger story: God's story. The trials that may come this fall, will be nothing compared to the glory of God's kingdom when it is all in all. So, whatever happens, remember, "Praise the Lord, O my soul!"

He ... was believed in throughout the world. (1 Timothy 3:16) Believed Throughout the World Not only was Jesus taught throughout the world, he was believed throughout the world within a year of His resurrection and ascension. The Holy Spirit worked through the preaching of God's Word by those three thousand baptized souls from the first Christian Pentecost. When they came home, they preached Jesus and He was believed for the salvation of their souls. Peter wrote to the Church, "We have not depended on made-up stories in making known to you the mighty coming of our Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:16). The stories about Jesus come from eyewitnesses to His ministry. We can go back and check these things out. These things really happened. The Gospel is not a "once upon a time" fairy tale. The Gospel is historical. The Gospel is reliable. The Gospel is believable. Jesus has been believed throughout the world because He is "the Way, the Truth and the Life" (John 14:6). He doesn't give lofty promises that He cannot keep. He keeps every promise that He has given, including that He rose from the dead on the third day. He keeps His promises for you and for me. Believe the promises. Amen.

We begin our sixth season of the Guerrilla Christianity podcast with a deeper look at the Holy Spirit. We see the Holy Spirit at work in the pages of the Bible, and we know He is at work in us as believers in Jesus Christ. What exactly does "Pentecostal Power" mean? How can the Holy Spirit of God move in us to bring about glory for God as never seen before? We look at the first Christian Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles in the upper room, and when three thousand people were converted to follow Jesus as Lord and Savior. Text: Acts 2:1-21 Recorded at Ebenezer UMC on May 20, 2018 (originally published on August 8, 2018) S.D.G.

Two aspects of Pentecost. 1) At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended on the Church that met “with one mind.” 2) Old Testament Pentecost and how it relates to the Christian Pentecost.

In this sermon for the Day of Pentecost Laurence draws lines from the story of the first Christian Pentecost, and Jesus’ promise that the Holy Spirit will come to his disciples to the 145th General Assembly of The Presbyterian Church in Canada.. Readings are Acts 2:1-21 and John 14:8-17, 25-27.

Rev. Peter Ill, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Millstadt, Illinois, joins Andy and Sarah to talk about the connection of Pentecost in the New Testament to Shavuot in Old Testament, what happened at Pentecost that is still celebrated by the Church today, and what traditions commemorate this feast.

Longtime member and current Lay Chaplain Alex Campbell will share the links to Jewish Shavuot and Christian Pentecost which fall on May 20th.

05/15/16 Joel 2:28 "And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" God usurped all of our biases in pouring out His Spirit on all flesh, despite gender, race, age or status.

Pentecost is celebrated by Christians as the birthday of the Church by the power of the Holy Spirit. Since the Jewish Pentecost is the fiftieth day of Passover, the Christian Pentecost is the fiftieth day of Easter and the final day of the Easter...

In today’s message, we learn and celebrate the story of the first Christian Pentecost and learn about being filled with God’s Spirit. Join guest preacher Eric Bluhm as he teaches about life in the Spirit.