{"id":137664,"date":"2025-06-10T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137664"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:15:19","slug":"food-for-thought-from-mark-batterson-for-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137664","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from Mark Batterson for Pentecost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<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\n\n\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>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\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<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Let me share with you my favorite depiction of Pentecost from Ethiopia! &#x2764;&#xfe0f;&#x200d;&#x1f525;<br><br>The caption on top says: &quot;How the Paraclete descended upon the Apostles on the Fiftieth Day and they drank the medicine of the Holy Spirit.&quot;<br><br>Ethiopia, 15th c. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/apostles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#apostles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pentecost?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pentecost<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/africanart?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#africanart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8EsVtuuptp\">pic.twitter.com\/8EsVtuuptp<\/a><\/p>&mdash; EthiopicManuscriptArt (@ArtEthiopic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtEthiopic\/status\/1932158349321404876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\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=137664\">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":[92,573,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pentecost","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137664","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=137664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137666,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137664\/revisions\/137666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}