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Tag: Holy Spirit

  • Why Christmas?

    I love Christmas!  Although I hate cold weather, Christmas is my favorite time of year.  I’m sure that you’ve heard all of this before.  It brings back great childhood memories, it allows me to spend time with family and friends, we give and get presents, and so on, and so on.  However there is another…

  • If Words Mean Anything, Israel Means Israel

    “The LORD God commanded the man, saying, ‘From any tree of the garden you may eat freely; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you shall surely die” (Gen. 2:16-17). “Now the serpent was more crafty than any…

  • Pyromaniacs: Driscoll’s Pornographic Divination

    I have often had people argue with me over whether or not God still speaks to us.  It’s the old cessationist/non-cessationist row.  In his most recent blog, Phil Johnson demonstrates the dangers posed by those who do not hold to Sola Scriputra, which is true of those who are non-cessationist, who believe that God still…

  • Salvation: Free and Everlasting

    In this post I want to share an interesting insight that I gained in preparation for teaching the book of Hebrews. Since the question as to whether salvation is something permanent or something that can be lost is always a major topic it is something that I always address when I come across a passage…