May 24th, 2026
When the Holy Spirit rushed into the upper room on Pentecost, it didn’t arrive as a gentle whisper or a distant memory. It arrived as wind and fire. We often prefer a God who is manageable, predictable, and safely contained. But scripture reminds us that our God is a consuming fire—not to destroy us, but to refine, warm, and ignite us. This Pentecost, we look at Acts 2:1–21 and ask: what happens when the fire of God meets the dry wood of our ordinary lives? It burns away our fears, melts our divisions, and forces us out into the streets to speak a language the world desperately needs to hear: the language of God’s wild, unstoppable love. Don't pull back from the flame. Let it catch.