The first kiss is a very powerful and meaningful thing, right?

Recently I read a report in a magazine stating that the average American claims to have had 26 first kisses. Wow! What that says to me is that I missed out on a lot of first kisses! My wife’s take on that is not surprisingly, significantly different.

Don’t spend the next fifteen minutes trying to remember, and then adding up, the number of your first kisses; let’s try to stay focused folks.

Again, a kiss is a powerful thing. All the fairy tales know it: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and so on. But how does the Bible in general, and the story of Pentecost specifically, fit into this discussion about kissing? Some say the first kiss recorded in scripture comes right at the beginning, in Genesis 2. God breathed the b…