As I began my sermon last Sunday… on Whitsunday… Pentecost… I mentioned that I couldn’t remember why it was called that. It was brought to mind … as I was reading a devotion from Luther in the devotional “Day By Day We Magnify Thee”— a good devotional, by the way, that has pieces of his sermons and commentaries… and other writings…
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This day celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit and the establishment of the New Testament church on earth…
But…
What has happened since?
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What are spiritual gifts? Spiritual gifts are Holy Spirit-created talents or abilities that he gives to each and every Christian to be used by each and every Christian at some point in some way to help and build up believers. “For the common good,” St. Paul says (1 Cor. 12:7).
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Read More John the Baptist had made a name for himself, though not intentionally. Everyone in the area had heard of him. He had been proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.
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Before Pentecost was a Christian holy day, it was a major Jewish holy festival where hundreds of thousands of Jews from all around the Roman Empire and beyond gathered together…
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