Author: Daniel Tomberlin

BS, MDiv, DMin. Ordained bishop in the Church of God (Cleveland, TN); pastor for 37 years; Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministries at Pentecostal Theological Seminary (Cleveland TN).
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Celebrating Pentecost – A Sermon for Pentecost Sunday

Text: Acts 2:1-4, 12 LSB

And when the day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all together in one place. 2And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3And there appeared to them tongues like fire distributing themselves, and they rested on each one of them. 4And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance… 12And they all continued in astonishment and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

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“There is a little heresy in all of us.”

Several years ago, a few months after my first book, Pentecostal Sacraments, was published, I received feedback from some of my Pentecostal colleagues who thought that I had written heresy. They thought so because I challenged views that were popular within the Pentecostal tribe. In fact, the book received good peer reviews. I shared some of the feedback with my mentor and friend, French Arrington. When I told him that some critics had suggested that it was heretical, he chuckled and said, “Dan, there’s a little heresy in all of us.”

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