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The Protestant League used to meet regularly in the church of my youth. As a boy, I once asked their leader what they talked about in their meetings. He replied, "Oh, we talk about all the sex orgies in Catholic convents." HAVE YOU HEARD THIS? I don't believe it. do you? At Azusa St/ the...

In typical Catholic fashion you simply deny powerful eyewitness testimony of outpourings of God's power because this testimony threatens the relative impoverishment of your own limited spiritual experience. I'm grateful that other Catholic site members are not as spiritually bigoted and myopic...

Global Pentecostalism was sparked by the Azusa Street revival of 1908, which in turn was a continuation of the unprecedented Welsh revival of 1904-1906. In the Azusa street revival outsiders saw flames bursting from the building and even called fire departments to extinguish them! But those...

Mike is a devout evangelical friend with congestive heart failure. He is a lifelong believer, attends church regularly, leads a weekly Bible study, and visits shut-ins. Mike's pastor recently preached a sermon in which he claimed, "If you don't have a "personal relationship with Jesus Christ,"...

In my town evangelicals are flocking from their local churches to find God real in our local Catholic church! Uneducated biblical illiterates like you have no answer to the biblical basis of many Catholic distinctives. I guess it's time for me to make constructive use of you as an academic...

In the body of Christ the whole is greater--far more powerful than the individual parts. So join a weekly small prayer group. Doing so will help you feed off of every else's faith. Individually, you can't just TRY to believe and "without faith it is impossible to please God." Our little...

Its hard to believe that "In the Garden" and "Dwelling in Beulah Land" (my favorite old hymn) stem from the same composer, C. Austin Miles. In his photography studio Miles had a waking vision of Mary Madgalene clothed in a white robe, standing outside Jesus' tomb. Then the words of "In the...

(15) THE DEAD TRUCK DRIVER: Now I'll share the most spectacularly supernatural experience I've ever encountered. Leonard, a member of my UMC church, was a wealth retired real estate baron. As his pastor, I got to know him very well and visited his sick brother in a hospital. Leonard was very...

Curtis: "Your attempt at rebuttal ignores the fact that being sinless is the epitome of being good." This response ignores these 4 facts: (1) You ducked my point that Jesus felt the need to receive John's baptism of repentance and did so to "fulfill all righteousness (Matthew 415)," not to set...

Curtis: "The easy refutation of this, is the fact that Jesus says He is good: Mat 20:15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?" Nope! You overlook the fact that this verse is part of a parable in which the landowner represents God, not...

When I was about 19, a young woman in our youth group testified to how much she had grown spiritually in the past year. At the time, I wanted to grow as well, but was uncertain how to measure such growth. So I ask her for an example of how she had grown and she was offended by the question. I...

I accept the traditional doctrine of the Trinity. But the OP's challenge is not so easy to eStablish as one might suppose. For example, how would you respond to these 4 questions and the appended answers? Q: What is the earliest orthodox expression of the Trinity (the first case in which the...

Give strong drink to one who is perishing and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more (Proverbs 30:6)."

Certain Bibles have great sentimental value, despite their textual and translation inadequacies. The best example is the Bible Donald Trump's mother gave him, a gift from the teenaged Donald after whom he was named, who often read aloud from that Bible during the last great revival, the...

You just illustrated how reluctant evangelicals can to read carefully before responding. If you'd actually read my post, you'd see that I begin with the categorical statement, "I oppose abortion." And like many evangelicals, you assume that if a poster defends Catholics, he must be Catholic...

I oppose abortion. But the very fact that this post is necessary illustrates the hatred many evangelicals here have for Catholics. They love to stereotype other faiths by the worst exemplars of those faiths, but are outraged when their denomination is subjected to such godless generalizations...

One United Methodist Church I pastored in western New York experienced signs and wonders more spectacular than any in the churches of the Book of Acts or in the Pentecostal/ Charismatic churches in which I was raised. Sadly, posters here like to stereotype on the basis of the worst exemplars...

If you don't know Greek and Hebrew, get 2 Bibles, one that is the best paraphrase (the New Living Translation) and the other that is faithful to the original languages (the NIV, 2011 edition). The New Living Translation is a revised version of the older Living Bible that is more faithful to...

When I spoke in tongues at age 16, I was unknowingly also given the gift of "the word of knowledge." For example, I was Best Man in Dallas's wedding. After the honeymoon, he invited me over for dinner. After dinner, he, his wife, and I retired to his basement to play ping pong. All was well...

In 1870 40% of all Americans were Methodists. American Pentecostalism has never experienced such a widespread effective move of the Spirit. The key tot his revival was the weekly class meeting in which members were asked to share the inner and outer state of their soul. Regular true...