Sunday Quotes!

We began our series "We believe in the Holy Spirit" by reading Acts 2:1-13 and considering this question, "What does this mean?" (verse 12). This was especially fitting as it was Pentecost Sunday. I preached on (1) the Promise of the Spirit, (2) the Presence of the Spirit, and (3) the Purpose of the Spirit.
These quotes were helpful:

"We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified." (Nicene Creed)

"This is the caution: whenever revival comes—whenever the Holy Spirit is poured out in extraordinary power—this division happens in the Christian community. Some genuinely inquire as to what this is, and test all things, and hold fast to what is good. Others stand outside and mock and write off the enthusiasm as merely human, "They are filled with new wine." -John Piper

"When floodlighting is done well, the floodlights are so placed that you do not see them; you are not in fact supposed to see where the light is coming from; what you are meant to see is just the building on which the floodlights are trained. This perfectly illustrates the Spirit’s new covenant role. He is, so to speak, the hidden floodlight shining on the Savior." -JI Packer