{"id":137667,"date":"2025-06-10T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137667"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:36:09","slug":"kendall-harmons-sermon-for-pentecost-2025-what-can-we-learn-from-the-holy-spirits-birthing-of-the-church-acts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137667","title":{"rendered":"Kendall Harmon&#8217;s Sermon for Pentecost 2025&#8211;What can we Learn from the Holy Spirit&#8217;s Birthing of the Church (Acts 2)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cVerse 6, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? It&#8217;s a really amazing question. Calvin says, there are as many mistakes in that question as there are words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s terrible. They just don&#8217;t get it. They don&#8217;t understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They don&#8217;t understand. They don&#8217;t understand. Why are they in the story?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because they&#8217;re us. Because apart from the Spirit of God, we just don&#8217;t get it. Whatever else is going on, this is a people that don&#8217;t have understanding unless God gives it to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you see yourself in them? Only just getting started. That&#8217;s not the only thing that they lack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They lack understanding. They also lack power. We know that because Jesus told them to wait.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>You may listen directly here:<\/p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/holycross-sc\/embed\/episodes\/The-Reverend-Dr--Kendall-Harmon-Pentecost---06082025-e340fo5\/a-ac05pj0\" height=\"102px\" width=\"400px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Or you may download it <a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/holycross-sc\/episodes\/The-Reverend-Dr--Kendall-Harmon-Pentecost---06082025-e340fo5\/a-ac05pj0\">there<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This radiant miniature from the famous &#8220;Grandes Heures de Rohan&#8221; (1430\/35) offers a highly original vision of Pentecost &#8211; one that breaks with standard iconography. The Virgin Mary is absent, and the apostles gather outdoors, gazing upward in expectation, hands raised in prayer.\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YaviyTBw3m\">pic.twitter.com\/YaviyTBw3m<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Vir Desideriorum (@VirDesideriorum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VirDesideriorum\/status\/1931646733370491302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVerse 6, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? It&#8217;s a really amazing question. Calvin says, there are as many mistakes in that question as there are words. It&#8217;s terrible. They just don&#8217;t get it. They<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137667\">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":[41,54,435,184,439,152,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-kendall","category-south-carolina","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-sermons-teachings","category-the-trinity-father-son-and-holy-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137667","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=137667"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138038,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137667\/revisions\/138038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}