On the Day of Pentecost, the Uniting Church logo offers a powerful way to share who we are and what we are called to be — pointing to the cross, the Spirit, and the ongoing call to unity and renewal.
The story of a Portuguese explorer who claimed Australia as the 'South Land of the Holy Spirit' reveals how Pentecost challenges every attempt to confine God's Spirit to a particular nation, culture, or people.
“Devout Jews from every nation under heaven” gathered in Jerusalem and witnessed an electrifying, mind blowing event as the Spirit of God breaks in to declare a new reality. Pentecost is a movement of renewal and transformation for no-one is excluded and where every race, culture and nation, has a calling and a place’.
“Devout Jews from every nation under heaven” gathered in Jerusalem and witnessed an electrifying, mind blowing event as the Spirit of God breaks in to declare a new reality. Pentecost is a movement of renewal and transformation for no-one is excluded and where every race, culture and nation, has a calling and a place’.
Peter prays over Tabitha and she is given new life and raised up. Resurrection is a call to rise, get up, stand up tall, and come out. Resurrection is to be called from all that inhibits us, being raised to new heights. Called to embrace ‘our story’, so we can be raised to a greater and more profound reality.
Peter prays over Tabitha and she is given new life and raised up. Resurrection is a call to rise, get up, stand up tall, and come out. Resurrection is to be called from all that inhibits us, being raised to new heights. Called to embrace ‘our story’, so we can be raised to a greater and more profound reality.