On Pentecost, those who experienced the Spirit’s indwelling spoke in “other tongues” (Acts 2:4). These early believers presumably didn’t understand the words they were speaking and didn ...

Secondly, there are Tongues of Fire: “Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each one of them.” In the coming of the Holy Spirit, God sets us on fire ...

Tongues of fire Pencil Preaching for Sunday, May 28, 2023. ... Pentecost Sunday. Acts 2:1-11l PS 104; 1 Cor 12:3b-7, ... the Holy Spirit descends like wind and fire on the disciples.

Pentecost Sunday, which is celebrated 50 days after Easter Sunday, remembers the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles, said Fr. Louis Cona of Rockville Center, New York.

Speech was not God’s only miracle at Pentecost. The Spirit also gave the gift of understanding, overcoming division and contempt. Tongues of fire, everywhere. In this loud and furious age, a ...

Catherine Coldstream’s Cloistered: My Years as a Nun was published last year. Courtesy of Catherine Coldstream ...

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The main event of Pentecost (the strong driving wind and tongues of fire) takes place in Acts 2:13, though the events immediately following (Peter’s homily, the baptism of thousands) continue ...

Pentecost, which is celebrated on May 19, ... Chapter 2, describes fearful disciples who were transformed when God’s Spirit descended on them like tongues of fire.