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During Pentecost, God makes our hearts sing


By Bill Uetricht


Uetricht is pastor of First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Muskegon, Mich.


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or much of the contemporary American church, Christmas and Easter are the big festival days for the year. This wasn’t the experience for the


early church. For early Christians, the big days were Easter and Pentecost.


In many modern American liturgical congregations, Pentecost sel- dom gets the notoriety it received in the early church. Often it happens as the summer season arrives when many people are preoccupied with discovering the joys that warmer weather brings. It’s true, some congregations choose Pentecost as the day for con- firmation, which certainly provides the opportunity to highlight this important day and season. But for many of us, Pentecost Day is too often overlooked, which may be unfortunate, especially in light of this long season. Perhaps a


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