Spiritual Gifts Reflections on a Year of Studying Spiritual Gifts 5 Jan 2018 Last year's 12 month study project focused on the Spiritual Gifts. It was a very fruitful and surprising study for me. I was surprised at what I agreed with, how…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: The Gift of Discernment 12 Dec 201712 Dec 2017 All Christians are called to "test the spirits to see whether they are of God" (1 John 4:1), and yet Paul speaks of a distinct gift of spiritual discernment in…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Interpretation 5 Dec 20175 Dec 2017 Paul states a few very important caveats regarding the practice of tongues. For starters, it is not an ecstatic gifting where the speaker is completely out of control. Paul states…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Tongues (Part 2) 28 Nov 2017 What exactly is the nature of the gift of tongues? This is a massively important question. Does the word "tongues" refer simply to human languages? Can it include a sort…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Tongues 21 Nov 2017 If prophecy is one of the most controversial of the spiritual gifts, tongues is not too far behind. The gift of tongues is often claimed to be the identifying mark…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Prophecy (Part 3) 14 Nov 2017 In several previous posts, I've considered both what prophecy isn't and what prophecy is. In this final post on the gift, it is worthwhile to consider its operation in the…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Prophecy (Part 2) 7 Nov 2017 The Spiritual Gift of prophecy is easily one of the most controversial spiritual gifts in the New Testament. It has been both abused and feared in the contemporary church. Some…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Prophecy 1 Nov 2017 Perhaps no other gift in particular has been more controversial than the gift of prophecy (it would be followed closely by the gift of tongues). Yet, the Apostle Paul holds…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Visions 25 Oct 201724 Aug 2021 It can be dangerous to discuss the spiritual gift of visions. After all they are purely subjective. There is no way for me to validate or deny someone else's vision.…
Spiritual Gifts The Spiritual Gifts: Responding to the Faith-Healing Movement 17 Oct 2017 The real danger of false teaching is the truth that it contains within it. Often, heretical movements start with some element of truth, but it is usually overemphasized to the…