Tag: pentecost

  • Preaching Paths May 24 2026

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary The text this Pentecost Sunday from ch 2 of The Acts of the Apostles falls into three sections. First, we witness the inrush of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus’ followers, who have been praying together in an upper room in Jerusalem on the Jewish feast called Pentecost.…

  •  Preaching Paths 8 June 2025, Pentecost Sunday Yr C

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Acts 2:1-21 is just one of the possible readings on Pentecost, but it is offered in all three years of the lectionary cycle. After ten, twenty, or thirty Pentecosts, a preacher may be restless for new material. It’s tempting to set Acts 2 aside; we know that…

  • Day of Pentecost, 8th June 2025

    Acts 2:1-21 Filled with the Spirit 2:1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2:2 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. 2:3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among…

  • Proper 5 (10)Third Sunday after Pentecost, 9th June 2024

    Mark 3:20-353:20 and the crowd came together again, so that they could not even eat. 3:21 When his family heard it, they went out to restrain him, for people were saying, “He has gone out of his mind.” 3:22 And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem said, “He has Beelzebul, and by the ruler…

  • Preaching Paths 19 May 2024 Pentecost Sunday

    Sally A. Brown, Professor Emerita, Princeton Theological Seminary Why, one might ask, would we preach from John when Luke’s dazzling Acts 2 account of the Spirit poured out is on the lectionary menu? We can preach from John without setting Acts aside.  A celebrative presentation of Acts 2:1-21 is fitting every Pentecost Sunday. Overlapping readings…