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Year of Sundays
Church of the Chemically Imbalanced: The Portland Pentecostals
By
Amanda P. Westmont
The first thing you should know about The Portland Pentecostals is that they are rabidly friendly to newcomers. Before we even found a pew, I’d shaken hands with no fewer than ten pentecostilians. Pentecostalites? Pentecostalonians? Oh. Pentecostals. Right. The second thing you should know is this was hands-down the most diverse church we’ve ever been…
The Portland Pentecostals: Calisthenics for Christ
By
Joel Gunz
I like to imagine that our blog readers are secretly jealous of us. While you go about your humdrum lives, sleeping in on Sundays and lingering over brunch and the Sunday Times, we’re like Stanley and Livingstone in the Congo, rising before dawn to throw our half-asleep children in the car for another trek into…
Holy Vocal Chords! Our Visit to the Portland Pentecostal Church
By
Joel Gunz
Praise the lord! We dropped by the Portland Pentecostal church today for our weekly dose of shouting, speaking in tongues and wild gesticulating from the pastors. According to the Pentecostals, we are all fallen sinners who deeply need Jesus (and a screaming pastor) to save us from the fires of hell. Needless to say, that…
Help us pick a peck of pickled Pentecostals!
By
Amanda P. Westmont
I am hard at work on a schedule for our year of Sundays, but it’s a work-in-progress. We have already decided to hit a Pentecostal Church this Sunday, but I can’t decide WHICH ONE! Help me choose! Joel is no help at all. Here are the options: 1. Emmanuel – “When God’s Spirit indwells a…
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