Two-Spirit

journey has allowed me to see the Holy Spirit bring Jesus alive in my life, call me into ministry, show me the works of the Holy Spirit, and become the voice that leads me every day. First of all, I was your average churched kid, creating as much mischief as the next little boy. Thanks be to God that I had a praying mother who kept me in church and showed me the value of scripture and prayer in daily life. It was not until 9th grade camp that…

If we are not preaching Christ, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father; our preaching is not Christian. Some churches and people for whatever reason attempt to eliminate Christ’s presence from their preaching. It is Christ who told us, “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” Jesus is in time what God the Father is in eternity. Our preaching is not authentic when we don’t exalt and lift up the name of Jesus in our preaching. We have forgotten that Christ is the one who bleed and died for our…

the Spirit. Acts 2:33 tells us “exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.” The entrance of the Holy Spirit brings about some very powerful and profound things, when the believe allows the Ministry of the Spirit to operate in their lives. The believer has to open up and receive the different ministry of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, Rick Warren, author of “The Kingdom Life, writes, “the Holy Spirit is…

filled out a card with my information and the pastor called me and said that he could fill me with the Holy Spirit. I was taken aback. A person can’t fill me with the Holy Spirit, only God can. Then he went on to say that the church lays hands on new members and once they speak in tongues then they will be invited to be active members. “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds…

The first thing that occurred was the development of the Pentecostal church. This was the beginning of speaking tongues. It was a form of fulfilling the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Christians shunned those of Pentecostals faith, until some churches added tongue speaking practices, which was the beginning, of the charismatic movement. Charismatic Christians were not apart of a different denomination; they are within each…

Jongseock Shin (Fuller Theological Seminary) I. Introduction The approaches of Wolfhart Pannenberg and Jürgen Moltmann to theology are similar, but, at the same time, they are discrepant. A notable similarity between the two theologians’ approaches is that both theologians bring the hope for the eschatological kingdom of God into the center of Christian life. They both stress in their theology the power of the future over the present. A significant difference between them…

and imitating their Master. The disciples spent all of their time observing and learning from Jesus. They saw how He healed the sick, raised the dead, gave sight to the blind, made the lame walk, the deaf talk, and when He fed the multitudes with two fish and five loaves. Even after at his resurrection Jesus left the disciples with these last words of instruction; to make more disciples; baptize and teaches these…

Trinity, due to the three main ways He interacts with His creation. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. In the Bible there actually isn’t even the term trinity, but it is however implied. Tim Case describes the trinity as follows, “There is only One True God, eternally self-existent, revealed in three distinct divine persons, The Father, The Son – Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, coequal, without division of nature, essence (substance), or being.” In 1 Corinthians 8:6 it says, “yet…

pray. It tells the Christ follower to pray in the Spirit, on all occasion, with all kinds of prayers and requests, to be alert, and always keep on praying. The Greek meaning of Spirit was the same as in verse 17. It means to have the “Immaterial part of the inner person that can respond to God; God the Holy Spirit.” The Greek definition makes the audience think praying in the Spirit is connecting to God in prayer through the strength of the Holy Spirit. The Greek meaning for the word…

“The Holy Spirit work within you, that being born through water and the Spirit, you may be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ. Amen.” This is the liturgy used by United Methodist Clergy when a human being of any age is baptized into the kingdom of God. The methods of invoking the Holy Spirit may be the choice of sprinkling, pouring or immersion. All three methods are acceptable in the United Methodist denomination. The “Baptismal Covenant is a Holy Baptism, by which we are incorporated…