Pentecostal spirituality calls Christians to the public sphere—to pour our lives out for others. The Holy Spirit is not a life hack. We are not empowered by God to avoid responsibility. But too often, ...

In the last lesson we understood from the Bible that Christians not only have the “indwelling of the Holy Spirit,” they also have the indwelling of God and Christ by keeping the commandments of God ...

For many Christian believers, the Holy Spirit can feel like the most mysterious member of the Trinity — unseen but working on our behalf to provide wisdom and guidance, and even positive intervention.

The inner life of God is one of family. God is not solitude, but a community of persons. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit show us the inner, relational dynamism of the divine nature. It was in the ...

In the New Testament, Jesus speaks of the Holy Spirit as another paraclete (helper). Jesus himself had been their paraclete, their divine helper. For He had strengthened them; He had comforted them; ...

Traditional language about Christian spiritual formation has long been shaped by the impulse to imitate Jesus, a call we hear ringing in Paul’s exhortation to “be imitators of me, as I am of Christ” ...

Photo by Adam Kring on Unsplash. In each of today’s readings, we are invited to recognize Christ’s resurrection not only as the guarantee of our salvation, but also as a reality that transforms how we ...

I once went on a blind date. He was a law student, a friend of a friend, and I was a seminarian. We met for drinks. He was nice, funny. He was a self-identifying Christian--the first one, actually, I ...

Preaching is more than lecturing. It is more than exhortation. It brings Christ home to the hearts of men and confronts them with his living grace and power. It is not only that Christ is discussed—it ...