Great Spirit

The Holy Spirit does not belong to us Christian and is not trapped in our hearts or in our church. We want to know who the Holy Spirit is we have to look first at Jesus of Nazareth. Peter later summed up his whole story by proclaiming Jesus as one whom God anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power (Acts 10:38). The Gospels teach us to think of him also as a human being who at every point in his life in everything he said and did was filled led inspired and empowered by God 's Holy Spirit look…

gain new depth of study. From the basics of a complete and careful exegesis, inclusion of epistemological insights, and using sound hermeneutics which bring discernment, we have been called to stand in the post-Pentecostal era using the Light of Spirit as the guide. This course has led us to glean ways to enter our study of Scripture by first acknowledging that the Bible is indeed God incarnate in written form. That idea alone creates reverence for approaching the text. The highest…

“The gifts of the Spirit are all prophetic, wisdom, revelation guidance, and oracular speech (including tongues)” Turner said that a Christian obtains those gifts even when they do not belong to a Pentecostal charismatic group. In addition, God is giving them direction to his children through prophecy. Turner talked about First Century Judaism,…

“Spiritually endowed; divinely inspired or having power to command” (The Readers Digest Great Encyclopedia Dictionary622). Another definition of charismatic is “A spiritual gift or talent regarded as divinely granted to a person as a token of grace and favor and exemplified in early Christianity by the power of healing, gifts of tongues, or prophesying” (Seven Language Dictionary744). There were and still are great communicators such as Jonathan Edwards, George Whitfield, Jack Coe, Billy Sunday,…

picks up the mantle that had been left behind by Elijah, symbolizing the passing on of the ministry to Elisha. God had not only chosen Elisha, but gave him the mantle, the covering of His Holy Spirit, to give him power and show his election and rite of succession. With this power Elisha was able to do great works for the Lord. God had chosen His only begotten son, equipping Him with the power to raise the dead, to give sight to the blind, to perform the impossible in the midst of unbelief,…

Nazianzus defines God by what God is, but does not try to “comprehend the whole of so great a subject as this,” because it is utterly impossible. Dr. Valeria A. Karras, an assistant professor of Church History at Southern Methodist University puts it perfectly by saying that “we may know God experientially at least “in part,” that is, that we may experience God to the extent humanly possible,” which gives people…

Oppenheimer (2013)10 provides opposing views to female leadership as a ruling position. He states that a woman can be ordained a deaconess if she is faithful and holy, for the ministries toward women. Furthermore, that position is one strictly of service and women can teach younger women, but is not a ruling position.10 He also referenced a letter that Pliny wrote to the Roman emperor Trajan in which he mentions deaconesses in the Eastern churches. Oppenheimer admits there are references in…

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 Ghost. The…

father, the son, and the holy spirit…” about 12 times in a day. Now despite this relentless repetition I didn’t really understand exactly what I was saying. It was only until I was in about 8th grade when I began to understand the doctrine behind the Holy Trinity. Along with this initial understanding, I have gained a new knowledge of it in this class. We’ve learned that the three persons posses one nature which is God. The persons, The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit all coexist, and were…

How honoring would it be if your best friends nicknamed you "son of encouragement,” the same name that refers in the Bible to the ultimate comforter, the Holy Spirit? This happened, and it happened to a man named Barnabas. His first mention in Acts showed his humility by obedience to the Lord and laying himself aside, His introduction of Paul as a new believer shows His reverence and honor of the calling God places on people, and His split from his best friend to follow the call of the Lord even…