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Holy Spirit
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Spiritual Gifts in 1 Cor 12—14 (part 1)
Some kinds of church bodies accept only particular kinds of gifts, hence amputate certain kinds of members. Some…
Word Gifts and Christ’s Body—Ephesians 4:11-13 (part 2)
(continued from part 1, p=4275http://craigkeener.com/?p=4275) The mature body, like her head The ultimate goal of such equipping is…
Word Gifts and Christ’s Body—Ephesians 4:11-13 (part 1)
There is much talk about the gifts listed in Ephesians 4:11. In context, however, these gifts appear, like…
Some key themes in Galatians
The New Perspective(s) and older perspectives come to different conclusions on various points, such as “faith in Christ”…
Why Both Gifts and Fruit Matter
The fruit of the Spirit is produced by the Spirit working in us; it expresses God’s character, his…
What Revival Looks Like: III. Pentecost, Part B: Sharing Possessions
If Pentecostals and charismatics have taught the church much about the Spirit empowering our speaking (treated in part…
What Revival Looks Like: III. Pentecost, Part A: Prophetic Empowerment
I will address this topic more briefly because I have touched on it in some earlier posts: Video:…
Continuationism discussion (1 hour video)
Josh and Jeff interviewed me on The Remnant Radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InKAO3x5N5o (I usually don’t have time to watch videos, but…
What does revival look like? The Spirit Speaks (application)
(picking up after last week’s post) What did revival look like in 1 Samuel? First, it affected even the wider…
What does revival look like? Part I: The Spirit Speaks
Many of us pray for revival, but what are we expecting? How would we recognize that God is…
Celebrating being God’s child
Today as I write this (Oct. 17, 2018: I scheduled this in advance), I am celebrating being a…
Cessationism
An interview about cessationism for Vida Nova in Brazil (English with Portuguese subtitles):
Filled with the Holy Spirit–some different expressions (1.37 minutes)
Some different expressions of being filled with the Spirit in the Bible
The Spirit as a foretaste of our future inheritance (one and a half minutes)
The Spirit as the guarantee/downpayment of our future inheritance