Jesus told a story about a farmer with a bumper crop. The farmer drew up plans to store his newly acquired wealth and retire. However, in...

In this first parable, Jesus uses four types of soil to illustrate a sobering truth, many people have ears to hear but don’t really hear...

Most of what the New Testament says about the Holy Spirit is in the context of the collective life of the church. The Holy Spirit is...

Jesus assumed that after his ascension to the throne, his followers would fast. He even gave them specific instructions about how to fast....

Paul gives Christians this command, “be filled with the Spirit.” The next few phrases in Ephesians 5 either teach Christians how to be...

The pouring out of the Holy Spirit marks, for those who receive him, entrance into the age to come. This is an age in which, for us, war...

Romans 8 has so much to teach us about the Holy Spirit. One of the things Paul says in this section is that the Holy Spirit is active in...

Though some people take this idea to an extreme by limiting the Holy Spirit’s presence to “the word only,” Scripture is absolutely...

It’s easy to keep pushing yourself, long after the fuel light has come on and you’re running on fumes. But stubbornly refusing...