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(3) Rev.Albert Baldeo was one of the most respected ministers in Kelowna, BC in Canada. He was respected enough to be given a weekly column in the city paper. One of his articles described his Dad's shared NDE and I confirmed the ensuing description of it by direct contact with Albert: Albert...

2 famous quotes come to mind as relevant to the topic of this thread: (1) Luther said, "Sin boldly." He meant this: we will all inevitably sin; so the key question is how we respond to our need for forgiveness. We basically have 2 choices: we can wallow on guilt with a poor self-image and just...

Hiya Pearl, welcome to this site! It's only fair to warn you that some will be speculating about whether "Pearl" is your real name or your stage name. I face that issue too. Some imagine that "Berserk" is not my real name! Sigh! Actually, I'm very shy and need to be drawn out of my shell...

FURTHER SPECULATION RELATED TO (1)-(7) IN MY PRIOR POST After his angelic deliverance from prison, Peter heads home, to what I think is the house where his wife Mary and son Mark live: "As soon as he [Peter] realized this, he went to the house of Mary, the mother of John, whose other name was...

My current weekly prayer group of 5 regulars grew from the ashes of a Free Methodist spiritual warfare group of 12+ who spent hours in intercessory prayer and deliverance ministries. The result? Many were blessed and delivered, but, except for the couple who have joined my prayer group, none...

I just take it for granted that most Christians come to these sites either to persuade others that their view is correct or to find confirmation of what they already believe. That has not been my experience, however, on New Age sites. There I have seen 2 people abandon their New Age view and...

(2) By the time I was 6 I had learned to hate church. There was no children's church or Sunday school for my age and Church bored me because I couldn't relate to much of the 1 1/2 hour services, especially the sermons. So I squirmed and protested in our pew and made myself a nuisance to my...

1) I was born and raised in the first Pentecostal church in Canada. I was born with congenital glaucoma in my right eye. My distraught parents were impressed by a famous faith healer named William Branham, who held healing crusades around North America. What set him apart was his...

You are apparently oblivious of the need for the work of preevangelism. Evidential testimonies can open hearts to the possibility that the claims of Christ are worth considering and can thus lead to salvation. That was true for my agnostic friend Roger.

Dave L: "And you do not think scripture is perfect? And does not do a better job than tongues?" Scripture is not perfect in the sense that it is complete revelation. It does not address many issues like abortion, which, however, is specifically condemned by the noncanonical Didache (c. 95...

LOL, you haughtily proclaim Pentecostal ignorance of the Word, when in fact it is you and your ilk who are virtually illiterate in the scholarly research of biblical texts in the original languages and against the background of contemporary Greco-Roman culture. As a Harvard doctoral student in...

One of the most important NT texts on praying in the Spirit is Romans 8:26-27: "Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we don't know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groans too deep for words...The Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will...

Roger B. recently retired from his top executive position is the federal HUD department. He is an agnostic, but developed an openness to the claims of Christ through the NDEs and ADCs that I am describing in this thread. He even invited me to his vacation home in Fort Erie, Ontario. A fellow...

(2) Dave Q. is in our weekly small prayer group, He suffered from a massive blood clot that extended from his foot to his groin area. Doctors expressed the hope that this clot would eventually calcify, removing the risk to his heart. Dave and his wife Patty's prayers did nothing to change his...

Dave K: "If tongues cease at the end of the world, why would Paul mention the obvious? It's because they were to cease when the perfect word of God replaced them." You keep ignoring the decisive fact that has been pointed out to you: tongues cease only when we seek Him "face to face (1...

Now it's you who are speaking jibberish! Scripture records the judgment that much of Corinthians glossolalia was "of the flesh" rather than Spirit-inspired. You have no grounds whatever to assume that modern tongues are less Spirit-inspired than the tongues spoken in Paul's churches.

In this case, both are equally heresay; and you need a basic course in logic because you are committing the fallacy of begging the question by assuming as true what is to be proven. Much of the tongues in the NT church was of the flesh and you have no way of knowning whether and to what extent...

Duh, by your argument, the reports in Acts and 1 Corinthians are all hearsay. You've got nothing in support of your naïve pontifications and I have laid out the modern Pentecostal position before which you freeze like Bambi in the headlights and have nothing to say! What you don't get is this...

For a brief demonstration of some of the manifestations of glossolalia after the apostolic age, see: alkingpentecostalism.blogspot.com/2006/12/what-is-history-of-tongues.html T he ongoing legitimacy of the ecstatic gifts has nothing to do with the closure of the biblical canon and you can cite...