This is part six of a six part series on Preparing for Pentecost. You can read part five here. Last Sunday, at The Falls Church Anglican in Virginia, Bishop Chris Warner confirmed around 40 people. He said the prayers from the 2019 Book of Common Prayer for most confirmands as he laid hands on them: “Defend, … Read More
Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash This is part five of a six part series on Preparing for Pentecost. You can read part four here. Someone said that 95% of what happens in biblically sound churches – programming, preaching, music, liturgy, fellowship – could be done without the Holy Spirit. That is not to say that it … Read More
Photo by Josh Eckstein on Unsplash This is part four of a six part series on Preparing for Pentecost. You can read part three here. What is this “Baptism in the Holy Spirit” that Jesus, just before his Ascension, promised his disciples that they would experience in a few days (Acts 1:5)? This question has generated plenty … Read More
This is part three of a six part series on Preparing for Pentecost. You can read part two here. We’ve been looking for inspiration from the ways the apostles and their followers prepared for the first Pentecost in Acts chapters one and two. In part one, we looked at waiting on God. In Part two, we looked … Read More
Photo by Yanin Diaz on Unsplash This is part two of a six part series on Preparing for Pentecost. You can read part one here. When you know that you have a ministry assignment ahead, how do you prepare? Many of us have learned, through painful failure, that without God’s manifest power, on our own, … Read More
