Tag: holy spirit
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That’s Not Fair! Possessions and Community
The Saga of Ananias and Saphira From a background of my own evangelical christian American thinking I had always squirmed with a certain sense of unfairness that Ananias and Saphira died instantly at Peter’s feet when the Apostle confronted them about a sale of THEIR OWN possessions. Wasn’t the profit from THEIR MONEY from a…
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Speaking the Word of God with Boldness
Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness Acts of the Apostles 4:29 NIV The Believers Pray for Boldness DO YOU? How do YOU ACT Confidently in Christ Jesus? παρρησία – parrēsia Now as they observed the confidence G3954 of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as…
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The Heart-piercing POWER of the HOLY SPIRIT!
The POWER of the Holy Spirit in ACTS What have we observed most in Luke’s early accounts of Acts? Clearly, the further power of the Holy Spirit, which Luke also notes in his Gospel as having descended on Jesus. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a…
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