Here Comes the Power
Taken from Acts for Everyone part 1
author: Tom Wright
contributor: SPCK - N T Wright
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Here Comes the Power
Acts 2. 1-4
Sometimes a name, belonging to one particular person, becomes so attached to a particular object or product that we forget where it originally came from. The obvious example is ‘Hoover’: in England at least we speak of ‘the Hoover’ when we mean ‘the vacuum cleaner’, happily ignoring the fact that quite a lot of vacuum cleaners are made by other companies which owe nothing to the original Mr Hoover. It is as though Henry Ford had been so successful in car production that people said ‘the Ford’ when they meant ‘the car’, even if in fact it was a Volvo...
Taken from Acts for Everyone Part 1 by Tom Wright
Publisher: SPCK - view more
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