Download or read book At Odds With The Holy Ghost written by Frank F. Atanacio and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank F. Atanacio was born in Hartford Connecticut. He has published several books which include: The Scar On God’s Journal, Paradise Experience, Participants Of Spiderlake, Child Behind The Darkness, Demon’s Nature, Sea Ghosts, Weakening Of Acee Ramsey. Frank has also published over a hundred short-stories and poems in various articles and publications. He loves collecting baseball cards, and sports memorabilia. His love is baseball, but his passion is writing. He now resides in the Huntington section of Shelton Connecticut.

Download or read book Who Killed the Holy Ghost written by Rufus Goodwin and published by SteinerBooks. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Christ, in his physical form, left the earthly world, he sent the Holy Spirit--"The Comforter"--to guide and inspire his followers. Beginning with Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was perhaps the most important aspect of the Godhead for the future of Christianity and for humankind as a whole. Today, however, there are cults for Mary and there are Jesuits and Jesus freaks, but what about the Holy Ghost--why has the Spirit lost its central role in Christianity and the Church? Who Killed the Holy Ghost? is a sweeping, hard-hitting, and accessible survey of the Spirit in the world and in human life, from the Jewish prophets to modern times. Goodwin--a journalist, former correspondent to the Vatican, and an expert on the Church and its history--investigates the rise of the Holy Ghost, the heresies, the battles, defeats, and victories, and the Holy Spirit's exile from history. He recounts and contextualizes what individuals have said about the Holy Spirit--from Paul, John, and Jesus to Leonardo da Vinci and George Washington to Einstein, Freud, and John Glenn. We are also given a close look at the various ways world religious traditions have treated the Spirit, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism, and many others. In the process, Goodwin focuses otherwise vague uses of the word spirit, from the ancient Greeks and Romans to Christian gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit to modern Pentecostals and the New Age movement. Journalistic in its sweep, Goodwin's treatment is nonsectarian and nondenominational, honoring the history of the Holy Ghost in life and death for our materialistic times. The Holy Ghost's visibility has faded with the centuries, so this is, in a sense, also an obituary. But the Holy Spirit, often so invisible, may not be a mere ghost or dead yet.

Download or read book Summa Theologiae Volume 7 Father Son and Holy Ghost written by T. C. O'Brien and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

Download or read book The Beauty and Glory of the Holy Spirit written by Joel R. Beeke and published by Reformation Heritage Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in The Beauty and Glory of the Holy Spirit both exalt and revel in the third person of the Trinity. Through an assortment of studies - categorized according to their biblical, doctrinal, historical, or pastoral focus - this book sets before readers the inestimable ministry of the blessed Holy Spirit. Contributors include David Murray, Geoffrey Thomas, John Thackway, Malcolm Watts, Gerald Bilkes, Michael Barrett, John Carrick, George Knight, Morton Smith, Ian Hamilton, William Shishko, William VanDoodewaard, Joel R. Beeke, Joseph Morecraft, Ryan McGraw, and Joseph Pipa. Table of Contents: Biblical Studies 1. The Greatest Revival in the Old Testament — David Murray 2. The Father’s Gift of the Holy Spirit — Geoffrey Thomas 3. How the Holy Spirit is “another Comforter” — John Thackway 4. The Ministry of the Spirit in Glorifying Christ — Malcolm Watts 5. Precursors to Pentecost — Gerald Bilkes 6. The Outpouring of the Spirit: Anticipated, Fulfilled, Available — Michael Barrett 7. Spirit and Revival — John Carrick 8. Cessation of the Gifts — George Knight 9. The Supply of the Spirit of Jesus — John Thackway Doctrinal Studies 10. Person of the Holy Spirit — Morton Smith 11. The Love of the Spirit — Geoffrey Thomas 12. Regeneration & Conversion — Ian Hamilton 13. Sanctification —Ian Hamilton 14. Witness & Seal of the Spirit — William Shishko 15. The Ordinary and Extraordinary Witness of the Spirit — Malcolm Watts Historical Theological Studies 16. The Holy Spirit in the Early Church — William VanDoodewaard 17. Richard Sibbes on Entertaining the Holy Spirit — Joel R. Beeke 18. Westminster Standards & the Spirit — Joseph Morecraft 19. John Owen on the Spirit — Ryan McGraw Pastoral Study 20. Spirit & Preaching — Joseph Pipa Appendix 21. KJV Text, Translation, and Tradition — Michael Barrett

Download or read book The Holy Spirit written by Christopher R. J. Holmes and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the Holy Spirit and how does the Spirit come to be in relation to the Father and the Son? What is the mission of the Spirit and where does it come from? Chris Holmes takes up the questions surrounding the Spirit’s procession and mission with the help of three of the church’s greatest teachers—Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Karl Barth. Drawing on their engagements with the Fourth Gospel, Holmes presents an account of the Spirit’s identity, origin, and acts, to show how the acts of the Spirit derive from the Spirit’s life in relation to Father and Son—and the extent to which the Spirit’s mission testifies to the Spirit’s origin. Holmes presents a way forward for pneumatology. Housed within the doctrine of the Trinity, pneumatology’s joyful task is to describe the Spirit’s acts among us in light of their source in the Spirit’s acts in God. The end of this inquiry is our beatitude—knowledge of the Trinity that yields to love of the Trinity.

Download or read book Holy Ghosts written by Gary Jansen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable true story, the haunting of a Long Island household forces a respected writer and editor to reevaluate the mysteries of life and death as he struggles with the frightening truths of his childhood home and his town's past. Growing up in Rockville Center, Long Island, Gary Jansen never believed in ghosts. His mother-a devoutly Catholic woman with a keen sense for the uncanny-claimed that their family house was haunted. But Jansen never found anything inexplicable in how their doorbell would sometimes ring of its own accord; or in the mysterious sounds of footsteps or breaking glass that occasionally would fill their home; or even in his mother's sometimes unsettlingly accurate visions of future events and tragedies. Though he once experienced a supernatural encounter in a Prague church as a young man, Jansen grew up into a rationalist, as well as a noted writer and editor. Decades later, in 2001, Jansen moved back into the very same house where he had once grown up to raise a family with his wife. One day in 2007, he encountered a strange physical sensation in his toddler son's bedroom: As I reached into his dresser drawer, I felt something very strange behind me. Startled, I quickly turned around, but there was nothing there. I shrugged it off, grabbed the socks and, as I was walking to the doorway, experienced an odd phenomenon-sort of like an electrical hand rubbing the length of my back. I stopped and stood transfixed. "What the hell is that?" I said to myself. The pressure then seemed to break apart and, for a brief moment, I felt like I had a million little bugs crawling all over my back. Within seconds, however, the sensation was gone. This became the first step in uncovering a frightening, fullblown haunting in his home-a phenomenon that lasted an entire year and eventually included unveiling the identities of the spirits who occupied his house; discovering the chilling story of a century-old murder in his hometown; encountering mind-boggling coincidences between local history and events in his own family; and finally engaging in a climactic exorcism with the help of Mary Ann Winkowski, the real-life inspiration for TV's The Ghost Whisperer. The events of that year-in which Jansen's family was terrified of and terrorized by ghosts in their own home-forever changed how he viewed the mysteries of life and death. Holy Ghosts is not only a gripping true-life ghost story but a funny and touching memoir, as well as a meditation on the relationship between religion and the paranormal, which are often considered at odds with each other but which the author shows are intimately linked.

Download or read book The Work of the Holy Ghost in Our Salvation written by Thomas Goodwin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Holy Spirit written by Domenico Barbera and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of the "holy spirit", the third person of the Trinity, as the Holy Scriptures present it, is one of those arguments which, both in the past centuries as well as up to us that we live in the twenty-first century, has been the object of bitter and long polemics, for the simple fact that not everyone believes and accepts the doctrine of His "personality", since for some it is nothing other than the "active force of God" and not a real person distinct from God the Father. Therefore, knowing what the Bible has to tell us about the Holy Spirit is very important, not only to learn what the Holy Scriptures have to refer to in this regard, but also to know how they present it and with what characteristics they define it. Having an overview of the many steps that the Bible has around the Holy Spirit will primarily serve not only to have clear ideas, but also to be able to objectively evaluate what the writers of the Old and New Testaments intended to tell us about the Spirit of God. In fact, the Bible presents it, indicating it in several passages such as: "The Holy Spirit", "the Spirit of God" and "the Spirit of the Lord"

Download or read book What s in the Bible About the Holy Spirit written by Alex Joyner and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s in the Bible about the Holy Spirit? What is the Bible is all about? What's in it? Why is it so important for Christians? Is it really relevant for people in the 21st century? Should I care about what's in the Bible? Why? What difference will it make in my life? The study series, What's in the Bible and Why Should I Care? offers opportunities to explore these questions and others by opening the Bible, reading it, prayerfully reflecting on what the Bible readings say, and applying the readings to daily life. The title of this unique and exciting Bible study series points to the two essential features of meaningful Bible study: reading the Bible and applying the Bible to life. First, we read the Bible to discover answers to the question What’s in the Bible? and second, we reflect upon what we read in order to discover answers to the question, Why Should I Care? and apply these answers to our lives. What’s in the Bible about the Holy Spirit? is one of the study books in the series, What’s in the Bible and Why Should I Care? What’s in the Bible about the Holy Spirit? will help readers explore the power and presence of God’s Holy Spirit in the lives of God’s people. Chapters include: The Holy Spirit Creates and Renews, The Holy Spirit Inspires, The Holy Spirit Empowers, and The Holy Spirit is with God’s People. Each chapter contains the following features: Bible Readings - Each chapter explores specific readings from the Bible. The Questions – Each chapter begins with focus questions that will be explored in the Bible readings and the chapter information. A Psalm – Each chapter begins with verses from a psalm. These excerpts from the psalms give readers the experience of using the Bible for personal and group devotion. A Prayer – A brief two or three sentence prayer at the beginning and end of each chapter What's in the Bible? Participants will read and reflect upon key Bible readings in each chapter and use the space provided to write personal and private reflections. Reflection Questions – These questions are related to the chapter information and are designed to help the reader consider key ideas that emerge from this information and from the Bible readings. Bible Facts – Additional related information about the Bible readings. Here's Why I Care – This activity near the end of each chapter contains questions that invite the readers to grow in faith as they prayerfully reflect about what they have learned

Download or read book The Holy Spirit in African Christianity written by David K. Ngaruiya and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The identity and nature of the Holy Spirit has long been a critical – and often divisive – topic among Christians. Yet it is one with which we must continue to grapple if we are to grow in our understanding of the personhood of God, the calling of the church and the life of the believer. The seventh volume drawn from the annual conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, this collection of essays addresses questions of pneumatology against the rich background of African church history. African theologians explore centuries of Christian understanding, from the writings of Augustine to the doctrine of African Instituted Churches, and examine the impact of pneumatological belief upon the life and worship of the believer. Serving as a corrective on pneumatological heterodoxies while making space for both the diversity and unity of the African church, this volume provides a powerful reminder of the centrality of the Holy Spirit to Christian doctrine and praxis.

Download or read book When the Holy Ghost is Come written by S.L. Brengle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: When the Holy Ghost is Come by S.L. Brengle

Download or read book The Holy Spirit and the Renewal of All Things written by T. David Beck and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-04-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volumes explores the shape pneumatology takes when we develop the theology of the Holy Spirit within an eschatological framework that has a universal scope and an unlimited history. When we do so, we find that pneumatology deriving from questions about what the Spirit does for us needs to give way to pneumatology that derives from questions about how the Spirit can draw us into the saving history of the triune God.

Download or read book InJoy A Spirit Filled Encounter written by Marilyn Hickey and published by Breakfast For Seven. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the New Testament, Paul likens being filled with the Holy Spirit to drinking wine. He encouraged believers that they, “. . . not get drunk with wine, . . . but be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18, ESV). Marilyn shows us in her book, In Joy . . . A Holy Spirit Encounter, how daily drinking of the “new wine” of the Holy Spirit opens the door to a life filled with continual and long-lasting joy. The kind of joy that not only puts a smile on your face and gives you hope, but the same kind of joy that Jesus, “. . . the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross . . . (Hebrews 12:2, NASB). As you read In Joy . . . A Holy Spirit Encounter, you will discover throughout God’s Word the many characteristics, traits, strengths, and gifts of the Holy Spirit are all available to you, the believer. Drink deeply of His presence and richly receive all that the Holy Spirit has for you.

Download or read book The Holy Spirit and the Reformation Legacy written by Mark J. Cartledge and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the legacy of the Reformation with regard to the person and work of the Holy Spirit. Following the five-hundredth anniversary of Luther's posting of his ninety-five theses, these essays consider this legacy with particular reference to the work of Martin Luther and John Calvin, as well as broader Reformation themes as they are related to pneumatology and the life of the church today. The contribution of this collection is to tease out and reflect on pneumatology historically but also to relate these findings to contemporary discussions, especially among scholars of pentecostal and charismatic Christianity. Together these essays invite readers to appreciate the contribution that the Protestant Reformation makes to life in the Holy Spirit today, as well as offering critical and constructive reflection on this theme. It is a timely and significant contribution to the discussions of the person and work of the Holy Spirit and the church.

Download or read book Illumination in Basil of Caesarea s Doctrine of the Holy Spirit written by Timothy P. McConnell and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Basil of Caesarea was the first to write a discourse on the Holy Spirit, many scholars have since questioned if he fully believed in the Spirit’s divinity. Timothy P. McConnell argues that Basil did regard the Spirit as fully divine and an equal Person of the Trinity. However, Basil refused to use philosophical terminology to make the point, preferring to use what the Spirit revealed through divine act and Scripture. Thus, “illumination” becomes the primary paradigm for Basil, which later theologians would come to call revelation, setting the stage for this study’s high relevance for contemporary thought.

Download or read book The Fail safe Way for You to Receive the Holy Spirit written by Rev. Paul C. Jong and published by Hephzibah Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS Part One ─ Sermons 1. The Holy Spirit Works within God’s Word of Promise (Acts 1:4-8) 2. Can Anyone Really Purchase the Holy Spirit with His Own Effort? (Acts 8:14-24) 3. Did You Receive the Holy Spirit When You Believed in Jesus? (Acts 19:1-3) 4. Those Who Have the Same Faith as That of the Disciples of Jesus (Acts 3:19) 5. Do You Want to Have Fellowship with the Holy Spirit? (1 John 1:1-10) 6. Believe That the Holy Spirit Dwells in You (Matthew 25:1-12) 7. The Beautiful Gospel That Allows You to Have the Holy Spirit Dwell in Your Heart (Isaiah 9:6-7) 8. Through Whom Does the Living Water of the Holy Spirit Flow? (John 7:37-38) 9. The Gospel of Jesus’ Baptism That Has Made Us Clean (Ephesians 2:14-22) 10. Walk in the Spirit! (Galatians 5:16-26, 6:6-18) 11. To Keep Your Life Full of the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 5:6-18) 12. To Live Your Life Full of the Holy Spirit (Titus 3:1-8) 13. The Works and Gifts of the Holy Spirit (John 16:5-11) 14. What Is True Repentance That Leads Us to Receive the Holy Spirit? (Acts 2:38) 15. You Can Receive the Holy Spirit and Be Dwelt by Him Only When You Know the Truth (John 8:31-36) 16. The Mission of All Who Have Received the Holy Spirit (Isaiah 61:1-11) 17. We Must Have Faith and Hope in the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:16-25) 18. The Truth That Leads You to the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Joshua 4:23) 19. The Beautiful Gospel That Tore the Veil of the Temple (Matthew 27:45-54) 20. Those Who Have Experienced the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit Guide Others to Also Receive the Holy Spirit (John 20:21-23) Part Two ─ Appendix 1. Testimonies of Salvation 2. Questions and Answers In Christianity today, the most frequently discussed issues are "salvation from sin" and "the indwelling of the Holy Spirit." However, few people have precise knowledge of these two ideas, despite the fact that they are the two most important concepts in Christianity. What is worse, we can't find any biblical writing that teaches us clearly about the issues above. There have been lots of Christian authors glorifying the gifts of the Holy Spirit or describing the Spirit-filled lives. But any of them doesn't dare to deal with the fundamental question, "How can a believer surely receive the Holy Spirit?" Why? Surprising truth is that they couldn't write about it in full-scale because they didn't have exact knowledge of it. As Prophet Hosea cried out, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge," nowadays, not a few Christians are drawn into religious fanaticism, hoping to receive the Holy Spirit. They believe that they will receive the Holy Spirit by reaching a state of frenzy and hysteria. But it is no exaggeration to say that their so-called faith reduces Christianity to mere shallow Shamanism, and that such fanaticism derives from Satan. The author Rev. Paul C. Jong dares to proclaim the truth. He deals the essential subjects in full-scale, which most spiritual writers have evaded for a long time. He first defines the meaning of "being born again" and "the indwelling of the Holy Spirit," and explains the inevitable relationship between the two pivotal concepts. Then he runs the whole gamut of description concerning the Holy Spirit, from "how to discern the spirits" to "the way to Spirit-filled lives." For more information, the author advises you to examine the contents of this book posted on this web page. The New Life Mission https://www.bjnewlife.org