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You just need to get out more and expose yourself to the big bad power world of the Holy Spirit in action. It was the successor to the United Methodist Church I pastored, not a Pentecostal, who spoke in fluent Korean at a prayer meeting, a fact confirmed by a Korean present in the meeting. It...

Of course, a native Korean and Swahili speaker were present to confirm the messages.

the minister of my church has spoken fluent Korean and a pastor;s wife near where I grew up delivered a thrilling meesage in tongues in fluent Swahili. The message alerted her that her daughter whose life was in danger in a violent part of Africa is now safe and would be home soon. At 16, I...

One experuence of speaking in tongues at age 16 was BY FAR the happiest, most profound experience of my life and I routinely try to relive the memory of the explosive power, sweetness, and immersion in loving omnipotence that washed over me then.

(2) This next encounter with "the word of knowledge" is probably my 2nd most treasured spiritual highlight in my life. I had applied to Harvard's doctoral program in New Testament, Judaism, and Greco-Roman backgrounds, but my a fellow seminarian told me I'd be rejected just like he was. So where...

Can it be that no fundamentalists here have the integrity to check out the many healing miracles performed at Lourdes, France through the healing spring mraculously revealed to Bernadette iby Mary n 1858? Lourdes even has a secular medical bureau for the purpose of gaining medical records that...

Read any academic book commentary specifically on 1 Corinthians and you'll see that Paul is responding to questions posed in a letter from the Corinthians on various subjects, including the exercise of spiritual gifts, including tongues: Hence, "now concerning spiritual gifts (12:1)." (12:10."

Duh, Psul is responding to a letter from the Corinthians posing

Paul said, "i want you all to speak in tongues" and "I thank God I speak in tongues more than all of you." Paul adds "you can all speak in tongue" and "He who speaks in tongues edifies himself." So what are your waiting for? Or can Paul's spirituality b e safely ignored.?

(1) At age 11, I realized that I should be baptized to please my parents and obey the Gospel. I had to attend a few preparatory catechetical classes and I was the only child among about 11 adult male candidates. The classes appalled me because the lecturer used poorly explained jargon like...

I was Spirit-baptized at age 16, as I tarried at the altar in an amphitheater near Pelikan Lake on a Pentecostal campground. I was full of doubts and skepticism at the time. But that experience of tongues was BY FAR the high point of my life! The Spirit came upon me in a wind, as I was...

Theophilus of Antioch (189 AD) is the earliest Christian to invoke the concept of "the Trinity:" and his version is not the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather "God, God"s Word (Christ), and God's Wisdom (not "the Holy Spirit1')." Matthew's tripartite baptismal f ormula does not use the...

This poster is so defensive about his lack of spiritual gifts that he feels compelled to ridicule those who possess and manifest what he lacks.

(1) INTRODUCTION: 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...

the word "trinity" does not occur in the Bible. The earaliest reference to "trinity" is found in Theophilus of Antioch (c. 179 AD) and His undersstanding of the trinity is "God, God's Word, and God's Wisdom!" Note the abssence of "the Holy Spirit."

Classic Pentecostal pneumatology identifies tongues as the unique initial evidence of Spirit baptism. They rightly base this inference from this fact: in 4 of the 5 instances of an initial reception of the Spirit, possession the Spirit is evidenced by speaking in tongues. This pattern is...

Billy Graham: "Theological understanding is the booby prize because it gives one just enough spirituality to inoculate one against the real thing."

I love the word choice of an uneducated preacher I once heard: "I like my religion the way I like my tea--hot 'cause :I'd rather be a fool on fire than a scholar on ice-- 'cause it's easier to cool a hot coal than to warm up a corpse. Honestly, when I drive by dem liberal churches, I take my hat...

Billy Graham: "Theological understanding is the booby prize because it offers just enough spirituality to inoculate you against the real thing transforming spiritual experience)."

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