Dear Friends,

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This Sunday is Pentecost — the birthday of the church, the day the Holy Spirit showed up and changed everything. I’ll be reflecting on the Gospel of John, chapter 3, where a Pharisee named Nicodemus seeks out Jesus.

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Nicodemus was a member of the Sanhedrin — and one of the most religiously educated and respected men in Jerusalem. He has credentials, convictions, and a lifetime of serious faith. And yet something compels him to look for Jesus - perhaps some quiet sense that for all he had learned and all he had accomplished, there was something he was missing. Something more.

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Jesus tells him: "No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.” Born from above. Born anew. The word in the original language holds both meanings at once.

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Pentecost is the church's annual reminder that the Spirit is still moving — still blowing where it chooses, still opening what has grown closed, still bringing new life out of what looked finished.

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I wonder: where in your life right now, might the Spirit be trying to birth something new?

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I look forward to exploring that together.

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See you Sunday!

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Grace and Peace,

Joe

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