{"id":129242,"date":"2024-05-21T09:02:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129242"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:18:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:18:57","slug":"tuesday-food-for-thought-from-mark-batterson-for-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129242","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday food for Thought from Mark Batterson for Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2018The Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit that has always intrigued me. They called Him An Geadh-Glas, or \u201cthe Wild Goose.\u201d I love the imagery and implications. The name hints at the mysterious nature of the Holy Spirit. Much like a wild goose, the Spirit of God cannot be tracked or tamed.<\/p>\n<p>An element of danger and an air of unpredictability surround Him. And while the name may sound a little sacrilegious at first earshot, I cannot think of a better description of what it\u2019s like to pursue the Spirit\u2019s leading through life than Wild Goose chase. I think the Celtic Christians were on to something that institutionalized Christianity has missed out on. And I wonder if we have clipped the wings of the Wild Goose and settled for something less\u2014much less\u2014than what God originally intended for us.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Mark Batterson, <strong>Wild Goose Chase: Reclaim the Adventure of Pursuing God<\/strong> (New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2008), pp. 1-2, quoted by yours truly in this past Sunday&#8217;s sermon<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today is Pentecost. This 16th c. devotional card showing the Holy Spirit descending on the Virgin Mary and the Apostles is sewn into LPL&#39;s copy of Thys prymer of Salysbury use (Paris, 1534) [ZZ]1534.46 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pentecost?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pentecost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/whit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#whit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c37Q5Fflup\">pic.twitter.com\/c37Q5Fflup<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LambethPalaceLibrary (@lampallib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lampallib\/status\/1792202275760513331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The Celtic Christians had a name for the Holy Spirit that has always intrigued me. They called Him An Geadh-Glas, or \u201cthe Wild Goose.\u201d I love the imagery and implications. The name hints at the mysterious nature of the Holy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129242\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pentecost","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129244,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129242\/revisions\/129244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}