Category: Elder’s Blog

Few passages in the New Testament have caused more spiritual anguish than the one where Jesus says there is a sin that will never be forgiven — not in this age or the one to come. Christians across the centuries have lain awake wondering whether they have committed it. Sensitive consciences,...

Ask ten Christians what spiritual gifts are and you'll get ten different answers — and a fair amount of discomfort in the room. Some associate gifts with charismatic excess and want nothing to do with the conversation. Others are so fixated on identifying their personal gift mix that they've...

Every Christian knows they're supposed to be growing. The problem is figuring out how. Try harder? Pray more? White-knuckle the sin you keep falling into? The New Testament has a different answer than most people expect — and it runs straight through the person of the Holy Spirit. Sanctification...

Few phrases in the New Testament have generated more theological controversy per word than "baptism of the Holy Spirit." For classical Pentecostals, it's a second definite work of grace after conversion, evidenced by speaking in tongues. For Reformed evangelicals, it's simply another way of...

Few debates in contemporary Christianity generate more heat with less light than the question of spiritual gifts. Do the miraculous gifts of the Spirit — tongues, prophecy, healing, miracles — continue today? Or did they cease with the apostolic age? Cessationists say they ended....