by Stephen Phelps | May 27, 2012 | Pentecost, sermon 2012
Does history matter? You might think the answer to this question obvious–yes, yes, of course!–and yet feel that the answer is hardly relevant to your personal life. The fact is that down through our thousands of years together, most humans most of the time have looked at the world through lenses which set history off in a vague distant field.
by Stephen Phelps | Jun 12, 2011 | doctrine, freedom, interpretation, Pentecost, sermon 2011, spiritual community
Pentecost is often called “the birthday of the church.” But if we are born “not of flesh, but of water and the Spirit,” (John 3:5), then this church body is a spiritual body and it simply cannot have had a natural birthday on which it was plopped into the daylight of history a blinking wet chick.
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