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Category Archives: Spiritual Gifts
The Difference Between Pit Stops & Racing
It’s been said that Christians need to be the church rather than just go to church. Truer words were never spoken. When church is a once-a-week-event rather than a seven-day-a-week lifestyle, it runs the risk of becoming little more than a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Church Attendance, Commitment, Doing Good, Faithfulness, God's Work, Ministry, Service, Spiritual Gifts, Sports, Talents, Worship
Tagged Christians using their spiritual gifts in service, Christians using their talents in service, comparing church attendance to car racing, pit stops at the Daytona 500, pit stops at the Indy 500, the benefit of church attendance, the Daytona 500, the Indianapolis 500
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The Tale of Emanuel Nenger
Emanuel Nenger arrived in Hoboken, New Jersey, from Germany sometime around 1876. He got work as a sign painter and eventually bought a farm in Westfield, New Jersey. But all of that was more or less just a front. You … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Commitment, Discipleship, Doing Good, God's Work, Good Works, Individuality, Influence, Ministry, Service, Spiritual Gifts, Stewardship, Talents
Tagged counterfeit money, counterfeiter who wasted his talents, Emanuel Nenger, using you spiritual gifts in service to Christ, using your talents in service to Christ
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Tongues as a Prayer Language?
(Series “The Early Church of Jerusalem” post #7) In my previous post, I explained that Acts 2:1-13 teaches that the Biblical definition of speaking in tongues is speaking in a known foreign language that you have never learned. Furthermore, I … Continue reading
Posted in Angels, Church, Communication, Discernment, God's Word, Prayer, Scripture, Series: "The Early Church of Jerusalem", Speaking in Tongues, Spiritual Gifts, The Bible, The Holy Spirit
Tagged Are tongues a prayer language?, Charismatic version of speaking in tongues, differences between speaking in tongues and a prayer language, holy-spirit, Pentecostal version of speaking in tongues, verses used to support tongues being a prayer language
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4 Basic Questions About Speaking in Tongues
(Series: “The Early Church of Jerusalem” post #6) We’re in a series on the early church of Jerusalem, and we’ve now reached a place where I’m going to devote a couple of posts to the issue of speaking in tongues. … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Communication, Discernment, Evangelism, Missions, Series: "The Early Church of Jerusalem", Speaking in Tongues, Spiritual Gifts, The Holy Spirit, The Tongue, Witnessing
Tagged Are there rules regarding speaking in tongues?, Bible passages about speaking in tongues, christianity, holy-spirit, Is every Christian supposed to speak in tongues?, tongues are a sign for unbelievers, What is speaking in tongues?
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Filled With the Spirit
(Series: “The Early Church of Jerusalem” post #5) The group of approximately 120 of Christ’s followers who experienced the famous day of Pentecost were filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4). This means that each of those believers became indwelt with God … Continue reading
Posted in Backsliding, Disobedience, Doing Good, God's Work, Obedience, Rebellion, Salvation, Series: "The Early Church of Jerusalem", Spiritual Gifts, The Holy Spirit, The Trinity
Tagged christianity, holy-spirit, How can I be filled with the Spirit?, Is the Holy Spirit It or He?, the difference between being indwelt by the Holy Spirit and being filled with the Holy Spirit, to be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit, What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit?
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The First Sermon of the Church Age
(Series: “The Early Church of Jerusalem” post #2) The “church age” began in grand style. One Sunday, the Jewish feast day known as Pentecost (Acts 2:1), approximately 120 of Christ’s followers were gathered together in a room in Jerusalem (Acts … Continue reading
Posted in Christ's Second Coming, Christ's Death, Christ's Miracles, Christ's Resurrection, Christ's Return, Church, Dreams, Evangelism, Preaching, Prophecy, Series: "The Early Church of Jerusalem", Speaking in Tongues, Spiritual Gifts, The Holy Spirit, Witnessing
Tagged a noise like a rushing mighty wind, baptized with the Holy Spirit, christianity, cloven tongues like as of fire, David's prophecies about Jesus, holy-spirit, I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, Peter's sermon, tongues are foreign languages, What does it mean to speak in tongues?
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When God Tells You to Do Something
I’ve been friends with Beau Thomas for most of my life. We grew up together, attended school together, ran around together, and played a lot of ball together. When each of us became a father, we also coached our share … Continue reading
Posted in Adversity, Change, Choices, Christ's Miracles, Commitment, Complaining, Courage, Decisions, Disobedience, Doing Good, Doubt, Encouragement, Faith, Faithfulness, Fear, God's Omniscience, God's Provision, God's Will, God's Work, Individuality, Ministry, Money, Obedience, Perseverance, Personal, Problems, Service, Spiritual Gifts, Submission, Talents, Trials, Trusting In God, Worry
Tagged a good coaching principle, coaching youth sports, doing what God tells you to do, God's commandments are His enablements, Jesus calming the storm, Moses making his excuses, O ye of little faith
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A Word About Church Services
A faithful churchgoer was asked by his fisherman friend, “How can you go to the same church every service, week after week, month after month, year after year? It’s the same place, the same people, the same hymns. You’ve even … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Church Attendance, Current Events, Discipleship, God's Work, Ministry, Music, Pastors, Prayer, Prayer Requests, Preaching, Service, Spiritual Gifts, Sunday School, Talents, Worship
Tagged attending the same church year after year, being faithful to your church, boring church services, Church Attendance, church is never the same, comparing church attendance to fishing, What's so important about church attendance?, Why does God want me to attend church?
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