Stephen R. Covey teaches The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for leaders who want to improve their gift of leadership. The second habit is seeing the End from the Beginning. Leaders think, “What do I want to acccomplish in the next 20 years of my life?” What are the five most important accomplishments that I should [...]
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Back to the Basics Series: What is Your Spiritual Gift? Part 2
Posted: December 12, 2010 in Sermons, The Holy SpiritTags: Arthur T. Pierson, Elmer Towns, evangelism, exhortation or counseling, giving, J. Oswald Sander's The Holy Spirit and His Gifts, leadership or administration, mercy, serving or helps, Spiritual Gift Questionnaire, Spiritual Gifts, Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Back to the Basics Series: What is Your Spiritual Gift? Part 1
Posted: December 11, 2010 in Sermons, The Holy SpiritTags: Arthur T. Pierson, Elmer Towns, evangelism, exhortation or counseling, giving, J. Oswald Sander's The Holy Spirit and His Gifts, leadership or administration, mercy, serving or helps, Spiritual Gift Questionnaire, Spiritual Gifts, Stephen Covey's The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Do you know what your spiritual gift is? The most prominent spiritual gifts operative today are serving, leadership, exhortation, evangelism, giving, mercy, and teaching. Which one is your dominant gift? In the beginning of three chapters dealing with spiritual gifts, Paul states bluntly in 1 Corinthians 12:1, “Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not [...]
Were Old Testament Believers Permanently Indwelt by the Holy Spirit?
Posted: September 30, 2009 in The Holy SpiritTags: John Walvoord, Leon Wood, Mike Stallard, Robert McCabe
I like what Mike Stallard did when he traced the ministry of the Holy Spirit throughout the OT beginning with the Pentateuch through the Post-exilic books. Another good article is at Treasuring Christ (Were OT Believers Indwelt by the Holy Spirit by Dr. Jim Hamilton).This is laying a biblical theology foundation upon which you can [...]
SERMON: SEALED by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13-14)
Posted: September 26, 2009 in Ephesians Class, Sermons, The Holy SpiritTags: A. H. Strong, Basics of Biblical Greek, Louis Berkhof, Sealing of the Holy Spirit, Wayne Grudem, William Mounce
Billy said to Jimmy, “My Dad has a list of names of men that he can wipe and your daddy’s name is first on it.” Jimmy went home and told he daddy, “Daddy, I have something to tell you. Billy’s dad has a list of names of men he can wipe and your name is [...]
Mark Driscoll and “Sign” Gifts
Posted: March 26, 2009 in "Reader's Favorites", The Holy SpiritTags: Exorcism, Healing, Mark Driscoll, Miracles, Sign Gifts, Tongues, Wayne Grudem
Mark Driscoll in a YouTube on the Four Lanes of the Emerging Church admitted that he agreed with Wayne Grudem that all of the spiritual gifts were operative today. What does the Scripture say? Spiritual gifts fall into two areas: Temporary sign gifts and permanent service gifts. 1 Cor. 1:22 states that the Jews require [...]
The Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Part Two
Posted: February 24, 2009 in The Holy SpiritTags: R. A. Torrey
Why is there so much confusion about the baptism of the Holy Spirit today? The eight different views that we have identified is cause enough for the confusion. There is confusion because of past Bible teachers in the camp of “Second Blessing” Fundamentalists, like Torrey, Moody, and Rice, who taught incorrectly the doctrine of Spirit [...]
Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Part One
Posted: February 21, 2009 in The Holy SpiritTags: Baptism of the Holy Spirit, Charismatics, Church of Christ, Covenant Theology, D. L. Moody, James Robinson Greaves, John R. Rice, Jomn Wimber, Landmark Baptist, Mike Stallard, Pentecostalism, Power Evangelism, R. A. Torrey, Reformed Baptist, Second Blessing Fundamentalists, The Third Wave, Vineyard Christian Fellowship, Wayne Grudem
When you hear the words, “Baptism of the Holy Spirit“ what comes to your mind? For some there are scenes of highly emotional church services accompanied with tongues. For others, a confusing mix of ideas from different studies and sermons muddies the thinking. That is understandable because there are many conflicting views. In part one, I [...]
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered
Posted: February 20, 2009 in The Holy SpiritTags: A. H. Strong, Arminians, Charles Ryrie, Louis Berkhof, Sealed with the Holy Spirit, Wayne Grudem, William Mounce
Billy said to Jimmy, “My Dad has a list of names of men that he can whip and your daddy’s name is first on it.” Jimmy went home and told his daddy, “Daddy, I have something to tell you. Billy’s dad has a list of names of men he can whip and your name is [...]
The Old Testament Ministry of the Holy Spirit
Posted: February 10, 2009 in The Holy SpiritTags: Charles Hodge, Holy Spirit, John Walvoord, Mike Stallard, Permanent Indwelling of Old Testament believers
Charles Hodge in his Systematic Theology said of the Holy Spirit: “The Spirit is the executive of the Godhead. Whatever God does, He does by the Spirit” (p. 529). If this is the case then God was busy in the Old Testament. The Holy Spirit created the universe. Of course, all three persons of the [...]
