May 20 – 26, 2026
This Week @ First Church
Wednesday May 20
Mindful Meditation – 6 p.m.
Come every Wednesday evening and leave the troubles of the world outside as you spend an hour in meditation. Enter the church through the Delaware Street entrance.
Sunday May 24
Worship Service – 10 a.m.
Worship Service In-Person and on Facebook
SERMON: “Get You Into My Life” Based on Acts 2:1-21 and John 17:37-39
Notes for Acts 2:1-21
Acts 2:1-21 narrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, marking the birth of the Church, fulfilling Old Testament promises, and equipping
disciples to spread the Gospel.
ACTS 2:1-21 Reader’s Theater by Ervina Boeve
Narrator: The disciples were all together on the Day of Pentecost. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from Heaven. It filled the whole house, especially where they were sitting. They saw what looked to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues as the Spirit allowed it.
Kat: God-fearing Jews from every nation under Heaven were staying in Jerusalem. A crowd came together when they heard a sound. They were bewildered because each of them heard conversations in their own language. Utterly amazed one asked: How can I understand what these men
are saying when they are speaking different
languages?
Men: Men from Egypt, Judea, Asia, and Mesopotamia.
Women: Romans, Libyans, and Cretans.
Narrator: It was amazing! And that’s just a few of the languages spoken that day. All of them were proclaiming the wonders of God in their own tongue.
All: What’s happening? What does it all mean?
Kat: Some people joining the commotion jeered at the crowd saying “They are full of new wine.” But Peter, who was with the eleven raised his voice
addressing the crowd saying
Narrator: “Fellow Jews and those from Jerusalem, listen to what I say. These men are not drunk, like you assume. God spoke these words through the Prophet Joel 800 years ago:
Joel:(?) In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old
men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in
the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before
the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Note for John 7:37-39
John 7:37–39 contains Jesus’ famous promise to satisfy spiritual thirst and his first explicit hint in the Gospel of John about the coming of the Holy Spirit.
John 7:37–39
“On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one
who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, “Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” Now he said this about the Spirit, which
believers in him were to receive; for as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”
HYMNS
“Let Every Christian Pray”
“Come, O Spirit Dwell Among Us”
“Filled with the Spirit’s Power”
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