In part seven of “Alive & Empowered: From Resurrection to Renewal,” titled “Filled to Overflow: Living a Spirit-Empowered Life,” Senior Pastor Travis Tullis explains the meaning of Pentecost Sunday, which explores how Jesus’s life now flows through His people. The sermon references John 7:38-39, Ephesians 5:18, Galatians 5:22-23, Acts 1:8, Acts 2:1-2, Psalm 23:5 and Jeremiah 2:13.

Acts 2:1-2 describes the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This marks the birth of the Church, where spiritual emptiness becomes spiritual abundance through Jesus Christ. Pentecost demonstrates that God’s Spirit no longer simply visits people occasionally — He now dwells continually within believers, empowering them to live full, fruitful, and overflowing lives.

Ultimately, we, as believers, can stop relying on “broken cisterns” and instead live daily filled with the Holy Spirit. “For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.” Jeremiah 2:13.

Thank you, Senior Pastor Tullis, for leading us forward and higher together and for reminding us that we are called to be fruitful image bearers and fulfill God’s original design. We can now understand how to be alive and empowered: by denying ourselves and learning to surrender to His will, we become people who bare lasting fruit in His Kingdom Community.