Sermon | ”When Fire Appears” | May 28

What is Pentecost? Pentecost is a long-standing Jewish harvest party, a Christian celebration as old as Jesus' Church, and a Greek word that means "fiftieth." And the Pentecost moment described in the New Testament is a 1st-century event in Jerusalem where people's heads caught fire (sort of). At this event, an indoor windstorm swirled through a packed house party, and everyone was baffled---some panicked. And then the guys with fiery heads became spontaneously multilingual.

By itself, the Pentecost story in Acts 2 looks kind of bizarre. But seeing what happened on the day of Pentecost within Scripture's larger narrative helps the story make sense.