Pentecost & Painting
Happy Birthday, Church! Today is the day the Christian Church celebrates Pentecost Sunday. Pentecost is the day the disciples received the power of the Holy Spirit. After Jesus was crucified, died, and buried, he rose again. For 40 days, the resurrected Jesus walked among his disciples, teaching and preparing them for something more powerful to come. Jesus then ascended into Heaven, and ten days later, while his followers were gathered together for the Feast of Harvest, the Holy Spirit, “filled the whole house where they were sitting.” In Acts 2, the Apostle Luke describes that moment as: “And suddenly from Heaven, there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.” This strange event started to draw a large crow...