Many Christians want an experience with the Holy Spirit, but what most do not want a theology of the Holy Spirit. I was quite pleased to see Francis Chan wade into this very turbulent stream. A theology of the Holy Spirit offers a “focus on some practical truths about who …
Among the mysteries of the faith is how we can say God the Spirit lives in us. How can the God of the universe inhabit us in ANY form? He cannot be limited in space. He cannot be parted out. And yet, the Bible tells us that the Spirit of …
I marvel at how the Holy Spirit of God transformed Domingo and Irene, that once hate-filled couple. They went from wounding one another to loving one another powerfully. Irene went from hating Domingo to calling him “the godliest man she knows.”[1] This did not, and does not, happen over night. It is a slow process of undoing the human psyche and using the broken pieces to build a suitable temple for the Holy Spirit.
It is my prayer that some day the Spirit of God will arrest each of our hearts in such a way that, in all things, we exemplified Christ. This means that even the small things we assume are a fixed part of our personalities, the faults we assume we cannot …