According to Rick Phillips (link below) Pentecost is this coming Sunday, while others will be mostly celebrating Mothers Day.

I did not know that and has the Church today, also not been aware of this? In other words, should we (the Church ) be concerned?


Did You Know that Pentecost is this Sunday? - Reformation21 Blog

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Gil Garcia
Rehoboth Reformed Church (RCUS)
La Habra, CA

"Ignorance of this distinction between Law and Gospel is one of the principal sources of the abuses which corrupted and still corrupt Christianity." - Calvin's successor


"By the words of the law man is admonished and taught, not what he can do, but what he ought to do. How is it that you theologians are twice as stupid as schoolboys, in that as soon as you get hold of a single imperative verb you infer an indicative meaning...?"
-Martin Luther, The Bondage of the Will

Pentecost occurred close to 2,000 years ago and ended shortly thereafter. What is this other pentecost you speak of?

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Chris
Presbyterian Reformed Church of Charlotte (PRC)
Student, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
SC

...hope is nothing but the nourishment and strength of faith.
~ Calvin's Institutes III.ii.43

Thanks for this, it will be a much better Children's Sermon for me. No more Mother's Day hello Pentecost!!!

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Benjamin P. Glaser, M. Div, Licentiate, Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
Member Fairmount ARP Church
Pittsburgh, PA

Deo Vindice

As the Jewish feast of Shavuot (Pentecost), Sivan 6, 5768, falls on Monday, June 9 (actually starts sundown on the 8th) this year, we'll miss it by about a month this coming Lord's Day. But, as that was part of the ceremonial law, "now abrogated under the New Testament" (WCF XIX:iii), and mother's day is nowhere "expressly set down in Scripture," "by good and necessary consequence ... deduced from scripture," nor a "circumstance" "concerning the worship of God" (WCF I:vi) neither has anything to do with public worship this next Lord's Day, nor any other.

I’m preaching on Acts 14:21-28, because I was on Acts 14:8-20 the week before.

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Glenn Ferrell
Pastor, Sovereign Redeemer Presbyterian Church (OPC)
Boise, Idaho

http://sovereignredeemer.org

http://www.sermonaudio.com/source_de...formationidaho


Nec Tamen Consumebatur


The duty of magistrates...extends to both tables of the law, ... those laws are absurd which disregard the rights of God, and consult only for men. - Calvin, Institutes, IV:20:9

In the Canadian Reformed churches we have agreed to commemorate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit -- however, it is up to local churches as to how they wish to do that. As for this particular Sunday, we are celebrating the Lord's Supper in the morning -- I'll be having a brief message on Acts 2:42 and that will be our commemoration for this year. In the afternoon, we have our new elders and deacons being ordained.

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Wes Bredenhof
Pastor, Providence Canadian Reformed Church
Hamilton, Ontario
www.bredenhof.ca
Gospel Talk Radio Program

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Pentecost was a "nick-name" for the feast of first fruits, since it was 50 days after passover. Also called the feast of weeks because it was 7 weeks after passover.

As such it occured every year.

Christians have adopted the name to refer to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that occured on that day 2000 years ago. As well the name has been used for just as long to refer to the Sunday 50 days after Easter.

"Pentecost" is not an event, but a day of the year. As such it occurs once every 365 days. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit was an event that only occured once in history, but the day comes once a year, even if you choose to ignore it.

BTW this is one of the 5 evangelical feast days that Protestants keep/observe/remember.

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Kevin Rogers
Sovereign Community Church, PCA
Moncton NB

THERE is no day commanded in scripture to be kept holy under the gospel but the Lord's day, which is the Christian Sabbath.

Festival days, vulgarly called Holy-days, having no warrant in the word of God, are not to be continued.

Nevertheless, it is lawful and necessary, upon special emergent occasions, to separate a day or days for publick fasting or thanksgiving, as the several eminent and extraordinary dispensations of God's providence shall administer cause and opportunity to his people.

Appendix, Westminster Directory for the Public Worship of God, 1645.

I'm a protestant and we didn't keep, observe, or remember an "evangelical feast day" today. I remember celebrating Pentecost as a charismatic.

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Davidius
Husband of Emily
Member of All Saints Anglican Church - Chapel Hill (AMiA / Anglican Church of North America)
Student: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, German and Classics