Pentecost

Our Vicar, Toby, reflects on Pentecost in Acts 2, exploring the power, presence, and transforming work of the Holy Spirit. Just as God’s ruakh - the Hebrew word for breath, wind, or spirit - brought life out of chaos in Genesis 1, the Spirit comes afresh to ordinary people, fulfilling Jesus’s promise and empowering the first Christians. Pentecost reminds us that the Spirit brings peace, freedom, discernment, and changed hearts - yet many Christians can still resist the Spirit’s work because it challenges comfort and control. “Everything the Spirit touches, he changes.” The challenge is whether we are willing to welcome that change and live with boldness and openness to God’s presence, rather than trying so hard to fit comfortably into the world around us.