Strengthened for holiness (Psalm 104:24-34, 35b)
I've experienced Pentecost as sweet, serious, or neither.
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In the churches I’ve served, Pentecost has taken different forms. One church had a committee that arranged for red balloons in the sanctuary and encouraged congregants to wear red. I went along like a team player because I got to wear my red cowboy boots. In the fellowship hall after worship, instead of cookies we consumed a sugary birthday cake. We sang happy birthday to the church as children pushed in close to sneak fingers full of icing. Sweet Pentecost.
