5/24/15
Chris Breslin
Acts 2:1-21
“Christians are a polyphonic people.” –Jeremy Begbie
“The thing we would remember from meeting a truly gospel-humble person is how much they seemed to be totally interested in us. Because the essence of gospel-humility is not thinking more of myself or thinking less of myself, it is thinking of myself less.” -Tim Keller
Nothing can explain this adventure – let’s say a quirk
of fortune steered us together – we made our covenants,
began this odyssey of ours, by hunch and guesswork,
a blind date where foolish love consented in advance.
No, my beloved, neither knew what lay behind the frontiers.
You told me once you hesitated: A needle can waver,
then fix on its pole; I am still after many years
baffled that the needle’s gift dipped in my favour.
Should I dare to be so lucky? Is it a dream?
Suddenly in the commonplace that first amazement seizes
me all over again – a freak twist to the theme
subtle jazz of the new familiar, trip of surprises.
Gratuitous, beyond our fathom, both binding and freeing,
this love re-invades us, shifts the boundaries of our being.
–Out of the Blue, Michael O’Siadhail
Scripture Excerpts
Further Pentecost Reading
Resounding Truth by Jeremy Begbie
The Book of Acts (NICNT Commentary) by F.F. Bruce
The Forgotten God by Francis Chan
Paul, the Spirit, & the People of God by Gordon Fee
Presence, Power, & Promise: the Role of the Spirit of God in the Old Testament ed. Firth & Wegner
Living the Christian Year by Bobby Gross
Imitating God in Christ by Jason Hood
The Descent of the Dove by Charles Williams
