Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holy Spirit. Show all posts
Sunday, May 17, 2026

The power of God's word, and how the messenger may need to get out of the way

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Because the Word of God affects us in different ways, I want to be sure to make my point without detracting from other ones that could be ma...
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Sunday, September 07, 2025

Help from the inside: the work of the Holy Spirit

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I have been working towards a fuller understanding of the Holy Spirit, beginning with various things the Spirit is credited with accomplishi...
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Sunday, December 08, 2024

The Holy Spirit and the bedrock virtues: faith, hope, and love

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In Scripture, we hear less about the Holy Spirit than we hear  through the Holy Spirit. If we consider the Father as the God we cannot see...
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Sunday, May 26, 2024

The Holy Spirit in the Four Gospels

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I have found myself wondering how much we understand the Holy Spirit, and so beginning at Pentecost this year have started a study of that. ...
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Sunday, May 19, 2024

The Spirit of God: Old Testament references

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Today Christians in the Western traditions celebrate Pentecost, when God poured his Spirit on the disciples in Jerusalem, visibly seen as to...
Sunday, August 07, 2022

The Holy Spirit v unclean spirits

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I've mused before that holiness has more to it than we often credit, more than our irreverent age can easily understand. One thing that ...
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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Pentecost: praising God in their language

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Today, listening to the Pentecost readings, I noticed a couple of basic things: People listen when we speak their language Seekers listen...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2015

Testing if a theology is from God: Reasoning from the fruit of the Holy Spriit

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As a corollary to the previous study of the Holy Spirit, it also seems to follow: If: a) the fruit of the Holy Spirit in our life is lov...
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Sunday, May 31, 2015

What God is like: Reasoning from the nature of the Holy Spirit

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Who among men knows the thoughts of a man except his spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit ...
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Sunday, May 24, 2015

The fellowship of the Holy Spirit: understanding

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The Spirit of the LORD shall rest on him: The Spirit of wisdom and understanding ... (Isaiah 11:2) This may seem obvious -- and sometimes ...
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Sunday, May 17, 2015

The Spirit and the fire

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The Bible has a collection of images that it uses for the Holy Spirit -- and fire is one of the main ones. This fire is not a destructive fi...
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Sunday, May 10, 2015

The spirit and the water

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So many things in the Bible are used as either symbols or sacraments -- we can save the "sacrament" discussion for another day. Th...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

Grace and the Trinity

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The current series on grace has three main posts still planned: this entry plus two others. There is also some additional material that may ...
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Purgatory and Pentecost: purifying fire

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I once knew a Roman Catholic fellow who was terrified of purgatory. It really haunted him. He had done something genuinely awful that was bu...
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Sunday, July 29, 2007

Gifts of the Spirit: Faith, Hope, and Love

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My pastor once said that Pentecost is the longest season of the church year because we live even now in the days of history that are celebra...
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