Happy Pentecost Sunday

I've fallen a bit behind posting my sermons the last little while. As I take a moment to update a few weeks worth of preaching, this might be a good spot to say a word or two about the church calendar while I'm at it. With the exception of Christmas and Easter, the church year didn't receive much emphasis in the evangelical tradition of my youth. More's the pity, perhaps, because there's something very beautiful the way the church calendar invites us to continually rehearse the story of our salvation each year, year after year, until he comes. I've not been "religious" about it (I still preached a Mother's Day sermon), but I've tried to keep the church calendar alive at the Freeway this year, making a point at the very least of noting each of the major feast days in our sacred reckoning of the year.

So, as part reigniting interest in the church calendar, here's the sermon from today, this Pentecost Sunday:

Acts 2:1-13: Tongues of Flame, Hearts on Fire

And here's my sermon from the week before, on Ascension Sunday:

Hebrews 9:13-16: The True True Meaning of Christmas