Pentecost

The Kin-dom Spirit

In this Pentecost teaching, Leah wraps up the Earthly Empire and Divine Kin-dom series by tracing the Spirit’s liberating work across Scripture, history, and today. She contrasts the Tower of Babel (an empire story rooted in conformity and self-glorification) with the Pentecost narrative in Acts, where the Spirit disrupts domination by empowering diverse languages and radical community. Drawing from the legacy of William Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, Leah lifts up the Spirit’s power to resist racism and empire while building a Kin-dom of mutuality, justice, and inclusion.

Review Leah’s notes here and listen to or watch the teaching below.

Tongues of Fire and Stuff

Tongues of Fire and Stuff

I believe I was a sophomore in college when it happened.  I had only been really following Jesus less than a year at the point when I was invited to attend my first church conference.  The college group I became a part of was loosely affiliated with a Vineyard church, and that church was having a weekend conference.  Attending the church on Sundays, let alone for a whole weekend, made me nervous.  It was so different from the experience I’d had of church growing up that I didn’t know what to do with it. But I trusted the group’s leader, and he told me that this conference was going to be really powerful in terms of people encountering God, so I went.