Holy Spirit

understands prayer as a personal relationship with the Triune God. God the Father, Son and a big aspect is the Holy Spirit. Pentecostal Christians demonstrate adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication in their prayer time. Pentecostal prayer can also include speaking in tongues. “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance”. (Acts…

The Paul model for pastoral leadership has been lost in today culture, today our pastors are measured on how well he can organize, build big buildings and manage the congregates. Congregation want pastor to be ready available at their every beck and call but do not tell them how to live a sacrificially or live in community as the early church did. In the book of Act’s Paul writes, And all who believed were together and had all things in common.45 And they were selling their possessions and…

Is San Manuel a Christian? Being a Christian depends on one’s faith in the Holy Trinity. Though we cannot peer into the mind or heart to see if one is a true believer, Christian faith can be viewed in one’s daily life. Christians are expected to follow the beatitudes, have a personal relationship with God, trust in the Bible, and perform good deeds. Though these actions are not what makes one a Christian, they illustrate that one is in fact a believer in Christ. In Miguel de Unamuno’s San…

Did you know that the very first church that was built in Ost was used as school building? This happened because they built a new church and they had no other use for this first church. But this is not the only church in America that Did you know that there is a church that expresses its love for football with one of the largest mosaics of Jesus in the world? This mosaic is named Christ in Majesty and it is located in the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception. This cathedral began when…

In the book of Romans, we learn many different lessons. People even have many different opinions on the theme of Romans, but the most commonly accepted theme is the Gospel. The book of Romans covers so many different subjects, it does not just focus on Christ, like the four Gospels do, and Romans also does not just focus on the theology for Christians. The book of Romans covers a variety of things all surrounding the idea of the Good News of our freedom from sin through Jesus Christ. This idea…

The word God had not appeared in Anglo Saxon literature until the early 800’s when a new Christian wave came through Great Britain. Unlike the pagan god Wyrd, the Christian God deals with the holy trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit none of which are synonymous with nature. The ideas of christianity entered both the Seafarer and Beowulf after the wave of Christian monks came through their translation of these pieces. Until the 800’s Christianity had not…

Scripture Passage: Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness…

changed because, I wanted a deeper revelation, a greater impartation, and a clear manifestation of who God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit is. For the bible tells me that there is important work to be done in the Kingdom and only a few are able to do it. My first step was to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Then I had to become filled with the Holy Spirit and baptized in the Fire of God. The feeling I had was indescribable and untamable. Everything began to change in my life…

Calvin taught that God creates a new soul each time a new human being comes into the world. He also taught that all human beings are born under sin. They are completely bound by sin. They are totally corrupt, which means sin has corrupted every aspect of human life. We inherit the sinful nature from our forefathers, and we particularly inherit the guilt of Adam. Thus the infant is designed for eternal punishment except he is a recipient of God’s grace. 8.6. Predestination Calvin defined…

I went back to the text but the dialogue had died down and no new themes or ideas were coming to me. At this point I did what Nancy Gross suggests and listed out my possible guesses for the meaning of this text. • it is a literal view of what it will be like before Jesus second coming of judgement. • It is about the hope of the coming of Christ • It is about the action needed before Christ coming again • It has something to do with eschatological theology and the idea of Christ coming to us…