Holy Spirit

conduct. The Scripture and the unwritten tradition are both considered vital and acceptable to the Catholic Church because they came from the Apostles, who knew the truth of salvation from the teaching of Jesus or when they were inspired by the Holly Spirit. The contain of the Scripture and the Tradition is the is the Gospel proclaimed by Jesus, which is the source of the whole truth of salvation. Does the council fathers ever define what they mean by “traditions”? The council fathers did not…

Christian life that is crippled and incapable of reaching its full potential of God’s promised spiritual renewal. Churches teach the doctrine of the Godhead (God, Son, and Spirit), but mistakenly place highest emphasis on God and Jesus Christ. Churches give little instruction on the dynamics of the golden seal of the Holy Spirit. The Biblical context is a preset blueprint of the Lord’s foundation of a Christian’s new life. God’s message is clear and He has predetermined the equilibrium for the…

life. In order to learn about the Bible, one should consider its origin, contents, and reliability. The Bible was written as ?Holy men of God? were moved by the Holy Ghost? (I Peter 1:21 KJV). Its authors include forty men ranging from Job all the way until John, who received the vision he wrote about in Revelation. These men wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, meaning that the words they recorded…

today. This essay will address how patriarchal nature of Christianity is result of the society in which Christianity first developed in almost 2000 years ago, and how those patriarchal ideas have continued to today, including gender roles within the Holy Trinity, the way women are portrayed within the Bible, the roles…

Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost” (Acts 8:14-17). Those of who received the gift of miracles after the apostles laid their hands on them. In Act seven godly men were chosen…

Right after this filling of the Holy Spirit, Peter was filled with boldness and preached! His cowardness that lead to denying Jesus changed to boldness which gave him the power to preach. The result of the Holy Spirit filling Peter resulted in 3,000 people becoming Christians; “Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day” Acts 2:41. What are some key factors of the Holy Spirit? First, the Holy Spirit empowers God’s Church for the…

Spirit filled individuals are set apart from everyone else. They have a distinctive common characteristic, boldness. The first outward sign of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life is spontaneous witnessing about the Good News of Jesus. Without the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit, people generally lack the driving force to proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ. It is the primary task of Kingdom…

“enlightened by the Holy Spirit”; 2) had “tasted the heavenly gift”; 3) they were “partakers of the Holy Spirit”; and 4) had tasted the “good word of God and the powers of the age to come.” As Dr. Toussaint describes, the context chronicles someone “in the early church, who was under deep conviction of sin, and it should be noticed that he [the author] does not mention forgiveness of sins, cleansing, sanctification, the salvation of the soul, new life or the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.” It…

Through reading the book, Delighting in the Trinity, I discovered how God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are all connected and how that affects my life today. I learned what God desires for his people and how He wishes for us to live a full and flourishing life. As I continue my journey at Taylor University I see how God wants us to live together in fellowship and love one another with the same love God has for us. Reading Michael Reeves book has helped me see the love God has for me. I…

be “Grace”. Wesley believed there to be three components of “Grace” at work in ones life. Those components were: Prevenient Grace, Justifying Grace, and Sanctifying Grace; all in which were powered by the Holy Spirit to bring the lost home. For Wesley the connection of Grace and the Holy Spirit went hand and hand.1 Through out this paper one will be able to pick up on how Wesley…