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Welcome Holy Spirit Bible Study Devotional
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-21
Welcome Holy Spirit Bible Study Devotional written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-21 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? The Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional: Forty Days with Every Fruit is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The WHS Bible Study Devotional is both Bible study and devotional. Unlike other devotionals that use saccharine platitudes and personal tragedy testimony targeting reader's emotions, the WHS Bible Study Devotional is one hundred percent Bible based and offers serious exegesis full of purposeful insights that improve our relationship with, devotion to, and understanding of the most misunderstood and neglected member of the Godhead: God, the Holy Spirit. It uses the Word of God to remind us to welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives every day to produce the powerful Fruit of the Spirit in us and through us. Whether Jesus called and you responded yesterday or fifty years ago, the WHS Bible Study Devotional will strengthen your ability to be a productive member of the Kingdom of God by cultivating your submission to the Holy Spirit as He teaches you from its pages. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups will find the WHS Bible Study Devotional to be very "fruitful." Each day's reading includes a passage of scripture, an insight about the meaning and implications of that scripture, and a "Welcome Holy Spirit Prayer" inspired by that scripture. When necessary the context of the scripture or passage is explained, and in some cases respected Bible study resources are consulted to clarify confusing passages or to illuminate richer understanding. The WHS Bible Study Devotional is, in that sense, a year-long Bible study. The subtitle of the WHS Bible Study Devotional is "Forty Days with Every Fruit." Throughout the Bible, the number forty is associated with a period of testing and spiritual devotion that results in miraculous and wonderful redemption, restoration, or blessing. During the time of the flood, for example, it rained for forty days and forty nights. All the earth was purged of humanity's wickedness. The ultimate result was redemption, a new covenant between God and all living creatures that God would never again destroy all life from the earth. Another example when the number forty represents a period of spiritual devotion that results in miraculous redemption, restoration, and blessing is when Moses fasted on the mountain top for forty days and forty nights. At the end of that time, God appeared to him and gave the Ten Commandments that has allowed so many to live well with one another and to be blessed. Again, after forty days and nights of testing, trial, and spiritual devotion, something miraculous and wonderful happened.Jesus provides us with yet one more example. He retreated into the wilderness where He fasted for forty days and forty nights, after which He was severely tempted by the devil. Jesus resisted that temptation and overcame the devil. Then He began his ministry preaching the gospel. Forty days and forty nights of spiritual devotion resulted in the good news of the kingdom of God being preached on earth-a blessing that remains the greatest gift of all time for all people!Working through The WHS Bible Study Devotional, spending forty days with every fruit, will require commitment and devotion (hence the name "devotional"). On the other side of those forty-day periods, expect a beautiful and miraculous transformation as the Holy Spirit abundantly produces love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more powerfully than ever before. Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional!
Welcome Holy Spirit
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Author : Florence Bullis
language : en
Publisher: Trilogy Christian Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12
Welcome Holy Spirit written by Florence Bullis and has been published by Trilogy Christian Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12 with categories.
God calls His people "the church" and equips us to live in the miraculous! Welcome Holy Spirit leads us to power for living the love-filled faith in Christ! The Church enters renewal only when we members are individually ready to experience a relationship with Jesus, and walk together, sharing the faith adventures that await us. We need to be affirmed by good sermons and teaching, then launch out on the waters. Most of us want to stay safe in the harbor, forgetting that neither ships nor we were created for safe harbors. Our priority is love and obedience in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. God has prepared works for us and offers spiritual gifts to help us on the journey, along with safety and protection through intercessory prayers for each other. These gifts of the Spirit are not just natural talents and developed skills, although some may be foundational. They are amazing abilities that cannot be acquired through a college education but rather, are imparted by the Holy Spirit and developed by a disciplined life in the Spirit. Discipleship starts where we are and takes us deeper and higher than we ever thought possible. We are free to travel as swiftly and as far as the Spirit permits, with rest along the way. With our consent, the Holy Spirit takes us gently and firmly into God's greater glory. See how God's Spirit is present for all believers through the impact of this 50 daily devotional meditations collection of scriptures, commentaries, word gifts, and prayers.
Forty Days Of Goodness
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Forty Days Of Goodness written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Goodness is the sixth volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is designed to facilitate Bible study reflection for individuals and discussion opportunities for groups. Each day's entry is followed by a page of discussion prompts and space to write down any ideas they elicit. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems that help readers to elicit and express their ideas. Below, and in the introduction of the workbook, is a more detailed description of each of the prompts: Reflections: This space allows participants to share thoughts that the Holy Spirit prompts them to have as they read each day's entry. Maybe you are not convinced or disagree with something in that day's entry. Maybe you have thought of that verse differently. Maybe it implies something more in your mind. Connections: In this space, participants can describe the things that day's entry reminds them of, perhaps other scriptures, or maybe something they learned in a previous lesson, something they remember from a sermon, or even something from their childhood. Questions: Here is where participants record any questions they may have. Questions begin with who, what, where, when, why, and how. Questions are meant to clarify any confusion. If something confuses you, try to formulate a question from that confusion.Implications: This is where participants can record any inferences they have from the passage. Given what the passage says, what else can we then deduce or infer?Applications: Participants can record what they believe this passage would look like in practice. The focus is on how we can apply the concepts of the day's entry in our lives.Exemplar: This space provides the opportunity to celebrate someone in your life whom you believe to be an ideal model of the lesson in the day's entry. Once we identify someone, we can invite them to be a mentor or resource to help us develop that quality in our own lives.Below is a sample format for a group Bible Study meeting provided in the introduction. 1.Call to Order2.Greetings, Welcome, and Announcements3.Opening Prayer (seeking each member's surrender to the presence and promptings of the Holy Spirit).4.Good News/Bad News Round-Robin Share: Each member shares the celebrations and concerns of the week and any prayer requests.5.Golden Line Round-Robin Share: Each member share's one "golden line" from the previous week's readings, a sentence or two that resounded powerfully with them. Remind participants to resist the urge to engage in discussion or debate at this juncture. Simply allow each person to share.6.Discussion of Daily Prompts. For each day's reading, ask for two or three volunteers to share one of their responses to the prompts for that day, and allow other people to respond and build upon each person's contributions.7.Closing Prayer (seeking the Holy Spirit's presence in each member's life throughout the coming week, particularly as they read and respond to their daily WHS entries).Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!
Forty Days Of Faithfulness
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Forty Days Of Faithfulness written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Faithfulness is the seventh volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is both Bible study and devotional. Unlike other devotionals that use saccharine platitudes and personal tragedy testimony targeting readers' emotions, the WHS Bible Study Devotional is one hundred percent Bible based and offers serious exegesis full of purposeful insights that improve our relationship with, devotion to, and understanding of the most misunderstood and neglected member of the Godhead: God, the Holy Spirit. It uses the Word of God to remind us to welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives every day to produce the powerful Fruit of the Spirit in us and through us. Whether Jesus called and you responded yesterday or fifty years ago, the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series will strengthen your ability to be a productive member of the Kingdom of God by cultivating your submission to the Holy Spirit as He teaches you from its pages. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups will find the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series to be very "fruitful." Each day's reading includes a passage of scripture, an insight about the meaning and implications of that scripture, and a "Welcome Holy Spirit Prayer" inspired by that scripture. When necessary the context of the scripture or passage is explained, and in some cases respected Bible study resources are consulted to clarify confusing passages or to illuminate richer understanding. The WHS Bible Study Devotional is, in that sense, a year-long Bible study. Additionally, opposite of each day's entry are several prompts to elicit thoughts shared by the Holy Spirit and space to write them down. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems to help readers elicit and express their thoughts. Sharing these thoughts with Bible study groups provides a powerful opportunity for "iron to sharpen iron." As the Holy Spirit "bears witness with our spirit," sharing these insights with others multiplies the work of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!
Forty Days Of Kindness
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-29
Forty Days Of Kindness written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-29 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Kindness is the fifth volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is designed to facilitate Bible study reflection for individuals and discussion opportunities for groups. Each day's entry is followed by a page of discussion prompts and space to write down any ideas they elicit. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems that help readers to elicit and express their ideas. Below, and in the introduction of the workbook, is a more detailed description of each of the prompts: Reflections: This space allows participants to share thoughts that the Holy Spirit prompts them to have as they read each day's entry. Maybe you are not convinced or disagree with something in that day's entry. Maybe you have thought of that verse differently. Maybe it implies something more in your mind. Connections: In this space, participants can describe the things that day's entry reminds them of, perhaps other scriptures, or maybe something they learned in a previous lesson, something they remember from a sermon, or even something from their childhood. Questions: Here is where participants record any questions they may have. Questions begin with who, what, where, when, why, and how. Questions are meant to clarify any confusion. If something confuses you, try to formulate a question from that confusion.Implications: This is where participants can record any inferences they have from the passage. Given what the passage says, what else can we then deduce or infer?Applications: Participants can record what they believe this passage would look like in practice. The focus is on how we can apply the concepts of the day's entry in our lives.Exemplar: This space provides the opportunity to celebrate someone in your life whom you believe to be an ideal model of the lesson in the day's entry. Once we identify someone, we can invite them to be a mentor or resource to help us develop that quality in our own lives.Below is a sample format for a group Bible Study meeting provided in the introduction. 1.Call to Order2.Greetings, Welcome, and Announcements3.Opening Prayer (seeking each member's surrender to the presence and promptings of the Holy Spirit).4.Good News/Bad News Round-Robin Share: Each member shares the celebrations and concerns of the week and any prayer requests.5.Golden Line Round-Robin Share: Each member share's one "golden line" from the previous week's readings, a sentence or two that resounded powerfully with them. Remind participants to resist the urge to engage in discussion or debate at this juncture. Simply allow each person to share.6.Discussion of Daily Prompts. For each day's reading, ask for two or three volunteers to share one of their responses to the prompts for that day, and allow other people to respond and build upon each person's contributions.7.Closing Prayer (seeking the Holy Spirit's presence in each member's life throughout the coming week, particularly as they read and respond to their daily WHS entries).Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!
Forty Days Of Peace
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-29
Forty Days Of Peace written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-29 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Peace is the third volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is designed to facilitate Bible study reflection for individuals and discussion opportunities for groups. Each day's entry is followed by a page of discussion prompts and space to write down any ideas they elicit. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems that help readers to elicit and express their ideas. Below, and in the introduction of the workbook, is a more detailed description of each of the prompts: Reflections: This space allows participants to share thoughts that the Holy Spirit prompts them to have as they read each day's entry. Maybe you are not convinced or disagree with something in that day's entry. Maybe you have thought of that verse differently. Maybe it implies something more in your mind. Connections: In this space, participants can describe the things that day's entry reminds them of, perhaps other scriptures, or maybe something they learned in a previous lesson, something they remember from a sermon, or even something from their childhood. Questions: Here is where participants record any questions they may have. Questions begin with who, what, where, when, why, and how. Questions are meant to clarify any confusion. If something confuses you, try to formulate a question from that confusion.Implications: This is where participants can record any inferences they have from the passage. Given what the passage says, what else can we then deduce or infer?Applications: Participants can record what they believe this passage would look like in practice. The focus is on how we can apply the concepts of the day's entry in our lives.Exemplar: This space provides the opportunity to celebrate someone in your life whom you believe to be an ideal model of the lesson in the day's entry. Once we identify someone, we can invite them to be a mentor or resource to help us develop that quality in our own lives.Below is a sample format for a group Bible Study meeting provided in the introduction. 1.Call to Order2.Greetings, Welcome, and Announcements3.Opening Prayer (seeking each member's surrender to the presence and promptings of the Holy Spirit).4.Good News/Bad News Round-Robin Share: Each member shares the celebrations and concerns of the week and any prayer requests.5.Golden Line Round-Robin Share: Each member share's one "golden line" from the previous week's readings, a sentence or two that resounded powerfully with them. Remind participants to resist the urge to engage in discussion or debate at this juncture. Simply allow each person to share.6.Discussion of Daily Prompts. For each day's reading, ask for two or three volunteers to share one of their responses to the prompts for that day, and allow other people to respond and build upon each person's contributions.7.Closing Prayer (seeking the Holy Spirit's presence in each member's life throughout the coming week, particularly as they read and respond to their daily WHS entries).Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!
Forty Days Of Meekness
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Forty Days Of Meekness written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Meekness is the eighth volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is both Bible study and devotional. Unlike other devotionals that use saccharine platitudes and personal tragedy testimony targeting readers' emotions, the WHS Bible Study Devotional is one hundred percent Bible based and offers serious exegesis full of purposeful insights that improve our relationship with, devotion to, and understanding of the most misunderstood and neglected member of the Godhead: God, the Holy Spirit. It uses the Word of God to remind us to welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives every day to produce the powerful Fruit of the Spirit in us and through us. Whether Jesus called and you responded yesterday or fifty years ago, the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series will strengthen your ability to be a productive member of the Kingdom of God by cultivating your submission to the Holy Spirit as He teaches you from its pages. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups will find the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series to be very "fruitful." Each day's reading includes a passage of scripture, an insight about the meaning and implications of that scripture, and a "Welcome Holy Spirit Prayer" inspired by that scripture. When necessary the context of the scripture or passage is explained, and in some cases respected Bible study resources are consulted to clarify confusing passages or to illuminate richer understanding. The WHS Bible Study Devotional is, in that sense, a year-long Bible study. Additionally, opposite of each day's entry are several prompts to elicit thoughts shared by the Holy Spirit and space to write them down. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems to help readers elicit and express their thoughts. Sharing these thoughts with Bible study groups provides a powerful opportunity for "iron to sharpen iron." As the Holy Spirit "bears witness with our spirit," sharing these insights with others multiplies the work of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!
Forty Days Of Temperance
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Author : M Ted Forester
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2019-06-30
Forty Days Of Temperance written by M Ted Forester and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-30 with categories.
Jesus called. You responded. NOW WHAT? Forty Days of Temperance is the ninth volume in the Welcome Holy Spirit (WHS) Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series, which is an opportunity to welcome the Holy Spirit into your life every day and to enrich your relationship with this amazing and wonderful Comforter that Jesus sent to us. The Holy Spirit makes our lives happy and full, and more importantly, establishes us as children of God: "The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God" (Romans 8:16). The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series is both Bible study and devotional. Unlike other devotionals that use saccharine platitudes and personal tragedy testimony targeting readers' emotions, the WHS Bible Study Devotional is one hundred percent Bible based and offers serious exegesis full of purposeful insights that improve our relationship with, devotion to, and understanding of the most misunderstood and neglected member of the Godhead: God, the Holy Spirit. It uses the Word of God to remind us to welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives every day to produce the powerful Fruit of the Spirit in us and through us. Whether Jesus called and you responded yesterday or fifty years ago, the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series will strengthen your ability to be a productive member of the Kingdom of God by cultivating your submission to the Holy Spirit as He teaches you from its pages. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups will find the WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series to be very "fruitful." Each day's reading includes a passage of scripture, an insight about the meaning and implications of that scripture, and a "Welcome Holy Spirit Prayer" inspired by that scripture. When necessary the context of the scripture or passage is explained, and in some cases respected Bible study resources are consulted to clarify confusing passages or to illuminate richer understanding. The WHS Bible Study Devotional is, in that sense, a year-long Bible study. Additionally, opposite of each day's entry are several prompts to elicit thoughts shared by the Holy Spirit and space to write them down. The prompts include reflections, connections, questions, implications, applications, and exemplars. The prompts are followed by sentence stems to help readers elicit and express their thoughts. Sharing these thoughts with Bible study groups provides a powerful opportunity for "iron to sharpen iron." As the Holy Spirit "bears witness with our spirit," sharing these insights with others multiplies the work of the Holy Spirit. Thank you for choosing The WHS Bible Study Devotional Workbook Series. May God bless you and keep you, may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ shine upon you, and may the amazing Holy Spirit dwell in you and merge with your spirit to produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance in your life more abundantly than ever before!
Welcome Holy Spirit
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Author : Benny Hinn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Welcome Holy Spirit written by Benny Hinn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Christian life categories.
In the international bestseller Good Morning, Holy Spirit, Benny Hinn introduced readers to the person of the Holy Spirit and told them how to experience His presence. Now he introduces them to the work of the Holy Spirit in the world today, allowing them to trust God more and take bold faith steps.
Welcome Holy Spirit
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Author : Gordon T. Smith
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2021-10-05
Welcome Holy Spirit written by Gordon T. Smith and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-05 with Religion categories.
World Guild Award Winner As the renowned scholar Thomas Oden noted, "No subject of Christian teaching is more prone to fanaticism and novelty and subjectivism than that of the Holy Spirit." The Bible's own metaphors for the Spirit are as elusive as they are evocative—wind, oil, flame, water, dove—making pneumatology a mysterious study. But shying away from the topic is no solution. Gordon Smith encourages us to seek both fresh understanding and fresh experience of the Spirit through openness to learning more, no matter what our theological tradition. In this way, as we hold biblical convictions firmly but gracefully, the guiding principles of discernment and humility will help us intentionally live Spirit-responsive lives day by day. Welcome, Holy Spirit is a much-needed master class with a trustworthy and encouraging teacher. How can we cultivate an understanding of the Holy Spirit that helps us experience the presence of the Spirit in worship, in witness, in joy and sorrow, in seasons of blessing and times of difficulty alike, all the while honoring the fullness of the Trinity? An attentiveness to the Spirit need not replace Christ as the focus of our lives and worship but can rather bring us truly into the presence of the living and ascended Lord. It is to this end that we pray, "Welcome, Holy Spirit."