{"id":370,"date":"2006-10-30T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/10\/30\/on-the-sermons-of-102906\/"},"modified":"2006-10-30T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-30T17:49:00","slug":"on-the-sermons-of-102906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2006\/10\/30\/on-the-sermons-of-102906\/","title":{"rendered":"on the sermons of 10.29.06"},"content":{"rendered":"
Unlike the wave of Reformation Sunday postings I see from my friends (well, two of them [1<\/a>, 2<\/a>]… I guess that count’s as a wave…) I stuck with the Bible for our preaching this week! [joke, joke!!]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Today we moved from the Synoptic Gospels to the Acts of the Apostles. Our reading for this series will become much more straightforward now, no more two verses here, ten verses there, and back to another three verses in a third Gospel.<\/p>\n Our first message centered around The Day of Pentecost<\/a>. Our proposition: The arrival of the Holy Spirit as the indwelling gift of God to every believer changed everything about obedient, scriptural religion. We talked about the paradigm shift of Pentecost, the ‘mother of all paradigm shifts’. Chapter 1 of Acts was treated as Pentecost in Anticipation, then the description of the arrival of the Spirit and the tongues that followed as Pentecost in Realization. Peter’s sermon is Pentecost in Explanation, and the last few verses of Acts 2 that describe the life of the incipient church is Pentecost in Application. Pentecost changed everything then, and it should change everything now. The change is what must most be seen.<\/p>\n