Scripture Text: Acts 2:1-13

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

Charles Wesley, O Thou Who Camest from Above O Thou who camest from above, the pure celestial fire to'impart, kindle a flame of sacred love upon the altar of my heart.

Richard Belward Rackham’s commentary, The Acts of the Apostles: An Exposition Every new beginning in thought or life is inevitably accompanied by disturbance. There is the struggle with the old, and the re-adjustment to the new, environment. So the coming of the Spirit is followed by irregular and abnormal phenomena. Like Jordan, the full and plenteous flood of the Spirit ‘overflows all its banks’ (Josh. 3:15). At first the old worn-out vessels of humanity cannot contain it; and there is a flood of strange and novel spiritu ...