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What Is It That We Have?
One of the great challenges for our contemporary church is this question: What do we have? We need this ability to hear the voice of the Spirit and act. 6 But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold! But I will give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, get up and start walking.” (Acts 3:6,…
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The Invitation to Audacity
Definition: the quality or state of being audacious: as a : intrepid boldness I tell you, even though he will not get up and give you the bread because of friendship, yet because of your shameless audacity[a] he will surely get up and give you as much as you need. (Luke 11:8, NIV) There are several things Luke chooses…
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Do NOT Worry
Luke 12. Life is so much more than the anxiety I get from the STUFF I have to deal with. The challenge is trust. The challenge is to understand that with Christ… I am more to him. He has my needs. 24 Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them.…
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The Action and Activity of the Spirit
25 Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. (Luke 2:25, NIV) I have begun a project that I hope to lead my church through this summer. We are going to read the New Testament in community. The order…
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Today on Pentecost Sunday BE the Church God Intended
We need a refreshing touch, a new outpouring. We need a fresh reminder of how much we need him, and how lame our efforts are without him. We make too much noise and think it’s God. We need the NOISE of a mighty wind that makes it clear… this is God. When Pentecost Day arrived, they were all together in one…
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The Price of Pentecost
Sunday is Pentecost Sunday. It is celebrated worldwide in the Church. Pentecostals think we’re the only ones who know anything about this. I know that was my mentality for years. Then, I find out the whole Church has a liturgy for this day! One of the prayers for the day: To a world dry and thirstyGod has poured out Living…
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We Define By What We’re Not… How About What We ARE?
We are really good at defining what we’re not as believers. “Well, I’m not Pentecostal because… But then again, I’m not a Baptist because…” and on we go. So much so we really end up saying, “Well, I’ve just arrived at something so remarkably wonderful, no one can just catch up with my wonderfulness.” 😉 When it comes to being…
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Meditations on the Holy Spirit
With Pentecost Sunday upon us, I am dwelling on some great thoughts about the person and work of the Spirit. The divine awakening produces in the soul of the perfect a flame of love which is a participate of that living flame which is the Holy Spirit Himself…this is the operation of the Holy Spirit in the soul that is…
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The True Power of the Spirit
One of my favorite verses in the entire Bible is Romans 8:11 11 If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your human bodies also, through his Spirit that lives in you. We truly live in the power of the Spirit.…
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The Power of the Spirit – From Confusion to Clarity
The walk through Romans 6-8 is more like a roller coaster ride. There is the power of salvation, being set free from the bondage of sin, in Chapter 6. Then, there is the confusion we have in our own lives when we struggle with what we know TO do while we fall into the temptation of doing the exact opposite.…
Category: Holy Spirit
