Fire air earth and water considered in the classical world to be the four elements essential to the composition of the cosmos surface in the Pentecost reading We see the fire in the descirption of the tongues of flame carried in by the rushing air resting above the heads of those gathered in

Last week I was accosted by a evangelical Christian in the street He asked me whether I had given my life to Jesus Christ I have He asked me if I spoke in tongues I can but choose not to He asked me if I had made the necessary sacrifices for the Holy Spirit to come into my life At

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