Baptism with the Holy Spirit

of the Holy Ghost by teaching us of the Spirit’s true nature, to learn more about the gifts the Spirit gives and to more fully comprehend how we can receive revelation through the Spirit. The Doctrine and Covenants enables us to improve our knowledge of the Holy Ghost by teaching us of the Spirit’s true nature. So often scriptures describe the role of the Spirit, but often times there is no explanation of what the Spirit is. The Doctrine and Covenants teaches of what is the Holy…

Trinity means that there is a God who has three different persons-Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In contrast, God is one with essence and one of three persons. These definitions express three important truths: 1) the Father,…

get into your own harmful habits when sin overtakes your life. In Genesis 1:2 water compares to the instability of the world before the completion of creation, “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” These waters speak of the depths and darkness in the biblical world. They can be controlled, but cannot be eliminated because this life does not have the power to tame death (de Souza). Fear also connects…

I will always remember this one significant memory because it has made me who I am today. It shaped and sculpted me. I don’t usually care to remember memories unless those memories will benefit me in some way. In this case, it does. Well, within that significant memory there are several other memories that I have created related to the significant memory along the line, along my life span. All these memories are attached but before those memories can even be created, there has to some source…

faith I stand as a Catholic, which means I believe in only one God. However, God is three persons, also known as the Holy Trinity, meaning there is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In addition, as a Catholic I believe that Adam and Eve disobeyed God leaving every baby born with original sin. From experience, I have been cleansed of my original sin through a process called Baptism. Baptism was the moment…

constant presence of the Holy Spirit. The presence of the Holy Spirit is not limited to an external manifestation of exuberance or glossolalia as I experienced in the religious environments I grew up in (though I won’t dismiss the experience all-together as it embedded a healthy understanding of depending on the Holy Spirit which is still active in my life today). For me, one of the best ways to describe this is in the words of Forbes, “I believe the anointing of the Holy Spirit helps the…

The Church The early church was founded by followers of Jesus Christ during the reign of the Roman Empire’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus. Rome spanned across Europe, North Africa, and part of Asia and bordered the entire Mediterranean Sea. The different offices held in the church have changed over time and vary between different denominations. Some people may think of a building when they think of a church, while others may think of a place their parents and grandparents go. In reality, the…

THEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS vv.1 - 2 Luke emphatically intends to show the role of the Spirit in the ministry of Christ. He begins the contextual description for the narrative by describing Jesus as “full of the Holy Spirit”, an exclusive Lukan claim that immediately follows the baptism narrative where the Spirit is descending in the form of a dove. He is then led by this same Spirit into the wilderness, in which the Greek prepositional phrase εν τω πνευματι most likely conveys intervention through the…

(as teacher) would resemble a mini-series, because the course of actions leading up to these particular offices are especially long. For example, the process of the apostle and in-house prophet includes spirit led practices such as; the study of the written word accompanied by prayer, baptism into the ministry of teaching (theophany and witness), leadership testing (dry seasons), introductions of the inspired word (revelation), and the delivery of the word. Osmer’s also identifies such a…

of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.” Recap: - Urged to walk in a manner worthy of our calling o Calling is discussed in chapter…