Notes From Jon

Tucked away in a remote folder on my desktop today, I found a couple of files I’d forgotten about.  Back on Pentecost Sunday, I did a joint Sunday School lesson on the Trinity, and preached a sermon on the Signs of Pentecost.  Here’s the sermon – a bit late, and more in note form than in prose.  But hopefully it might still be of some help!

What was Pentecost?  You’ll get a different answer for nearly every person you ask.  But to me, it seems that Pentecost is one of the most underrated celebrations for Protestants – especially for Baptists.  Maybe we’re afraid we’ll become “charismatic” or Pentecostal if we look too closely at Pentecost?

No matter what your understanding of what happened that day, you can’t deny that it was something special.  God was doing a mighty work – a work on par with many of his other activities in the Bible, the culmination and re-launch of Jesus’ ministry on earth. Read the rest of this entry »