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Eli’s Story
Apostles – Messengers of Christ
The word apostle (Greek – apostolos) speaks to the sending out of an envoy or messenger. In the Greco-Roman world, an apostle was “a person of merit engaged in administrative service” (BAGD). In the New Testament, an apostle was a person called as a messenger of the Gospel who established local churches and exercised administrative leadership in those churches.
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Celebrating Pentecost – A Sermon for Pentecost Sunday
Text: Acts 2:1-4, 12 LSB
And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3And there appeared to them tongues like fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance… 12And they all continued in astonishment and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”
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