November 5, 2015
As I felt myself coming to the end of this first Pentecost ‘sermon,’ I stated, “God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it.” Little did I know at the time, but this statement, this […]
October 28, 2015
For a celebration like Pentecost, Jerusalem might swell to as many as 500,000 pilgrims. I don’t know how many came running up to us, but there was a huge crowd, too many to count. They were from all over the […]
October 21, 2015
I want to tell you what that first day on Pentecost was like. The day the Spirit showed up. As John was finishing his talk that morning the air around me suddenly felt heavy. I don’t know how to describe […]
October 15, 2015
For the next few days we all went to the temple daily. It seemed like the thing to do. There were about one hundred twenty of us and we needed a larger space than Mark’s mother’s big room. So each […]