The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

What's important to you?

What’s important to you?

What’s important to you?  Do we even take time to think about that question?  Or are we just so focused on “now” that we don’t even know what’s important? 

Maybe I should say, what’s important in your future?  You know, beyond the next few minutes?  Even better, your distant future?  Where do you hope to be at the end of your life? 

In other words, what’s your life goal?  What’s important for you to be able to achieve your life goal?  Do I dare even ask if you’ve thought about the next life?  What happens after this one?

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Receive the Holy Spirit

The problem of “Receive the Holy Spirit”

And with that he breathed on them and said, Receive the Holy Spirit.   This verse is from John 20:22.  Yes – John’s Gospel.  This is one of those verses that just makes you want to ask, “What is going on here?  Didn’t that happen later?  Wasn’t that in Acts?  On Pentecost?” 

Let’s start someplace unexpected.  In the middle.  At the very beginning of the book of Acts, written by Luke.

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