Sun, May 28
|Peace Lutheran Church
Pentecost
Sunday, May 28th is Pentecost! Join with us as we discuss the Holy Spirit and Pentecost at 9:00 morning study and 10:00 Church!
Time & Location
May 28, 2023, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Peace Lutheran Church, 8134 N Meyer Rd, Post Falls, ID 83854, USA
About The Event
Pentecost is ‘Shavuot” in Hebrew, meaning “Feast of Weeks”
Pentecost is 7 full weeks and 1 day after the Feast of Firstfruits, for a total of 50 days (Pentecost in Greek means “fiftieth” day) and took place 10 days after Jesus ascended (Acts 1:3)
Pentecost was a celebration of the end of the wheat harvest (Numbers 28:26), an offering of 2 loaves of wheat bread made with leaven (Leviticus 23:16-17). Pentecost commemorated the giving of the law which Moses received from God on Mount Sinai, Jews refer to it as the “season of the giving of the law”. Now, we celebrate Pentecost as the day in with God poured out His Spirit (Acts 2:1-21)
The Holy Spirit is the giver of gifts: Diverse gifts but One Giver (1 Corinthians 12:4-6):
John 15:26: He will testify of Me (said Jesus about Spirit)and John 16:14: He will glorify Me, for He will…