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I appreciate honest sharing of the pitfalls and disillusionment of one's spiritual journey. I grew up in the first and one of the largest Pentecostal churches in Canada. In my 21 years in that church I had no close friends; all my friends were school mates. My Dad was a church soloist who...

Why did you quote me if you weren't going to address the points in my post?

One aspect of the gift of prophecy is prophetic or spiritual discernment. Throughout my life I have received many prophetic premonitions of imminent death and those premonitions have always come true. When I tried to warn the victims, my warning was not heeded and the death occurred a day or...

Yes, you nicely make my point, but more succinctly.

3 reasons favor the interpretation that "born of water and the Spirit" in John 3:5 means "water baptism" and an accompanying experience of the regenerating Spirit: (1) You can come up with no example from the NT era of water as a reference to amniotic fluid. (2) Being born of water and the...

Cessationists have an impoverished spirituality that is basically a head trip divorced from profound spiritual experience and therefore an anemic spirituality that is forced to unbiblically relegate apostolic experiences of power to the apostolic age--a covert way of denying the inspiration of...

This thread reminds me of the most important neglected biblical text on Christian spirituality: "But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out, not the [God-] talk of these arrogant people, but their [supernatural] power. For the kingdom of God depends not on [God-] talk...

Smith Wigglesworth was invited to join a pastor in ministering to the bereaved after their father's death. Smith listened to the pastor praying for strength and a healthy grief for these mourners, when suddenly he interrupted the prayer, crying, "Lord, shut this guy up, shut him up!" When the...

Do you know how to "pray without ceasing," "pray in the Spirit" (as opposed to ego-driven prayer), "walk in the Spirit," and "be led by the Spirit" (all Pauline expressions)? The best way to master all these advanced forms of prayerful living is through the mastery of contemplative prayer. For...

At Harvard Divinity School a doctoral student (now a UNC professor) told me about a minister he knew who ministered the gift of healing with "the word of knowledge." One night, he was abruptly awakened by a vision of a beautiful serpent hovering over him. The serpent asked if he could come...

r1xlx: "I quote 1 Corinthians 12:10 To others he gives the ability to speak in different kinds of languages they had not known before. And to still others he gives the ability to explain what was said in those languages. ' I say this means that tongues is a gift that may be given to some who GOD...

Willie T., I read the article until it used liberal academic jargon that made me freak out and immediately pray that the author get saved!:eek: No seriously, it is the best scholarly article on Pentecostalism ever posted on this site. As an ex-NT professor, I can assure you that it invokes...

The most articulate spokesman for evolutionary theory since the late Stephen J. Gould is Brown U. professor Kenneth Miller. Dr. Miller has authored widely used high school and college biology text books with chapters on evolution and is the most respected spokesman for court cases on the...

This thread focuses on the question of where the line can be drawn between true 'miracles," acts of divine providence," and mere "coincidence." To discern your own attitude to this important line, watch this mesmerizing video of 5 alleged "miracles" unfolding as they happened and share your...

Duh, do you worship your family photo albums? Christians don't worship the Shroud! Rather, the Shroud, like Holy Communion, is a reminder valve to release affection and worship of the crucified and risen Christ.

Suppose your house burnt down and it seemed that all your possessions were lost. Would it matter if you found that precious family photo albums survived the fire? The heart of the Christian faith is a personal relationship with Christ. Yet we have no accurate artistic portraits of Him, no...

NOTE: On the same YouTube video there is an excellent biopic on KK' life right after the nurse's testimony about the events surrounding her passing. (1) There inexplicable power failure at the moment of KK's passing reminds me of the darkness and earthquake when Jesus died on the cross. (2)...

(11) MY FAVORITE COMMENT FROM MY MOTHER No church in Winnipeg would host Rev. Hart. That forced him to hold his meetings in Lighthouse Mission, a place of worship that homeless men and alcoholics had to attend to get a free meal across the street. At age 16 I preached my first sermon there...

Mike, My paranormal experiences seemed to happen in bunches, so dramatically so that I felt like St. Paul. But then inexplicably long dry spells would ensue, which made me feel like God had put me on the shelf! If the cause was unconfessed sin or a failure to act even more boldly in faith...

Have you ever heard a sermon on Proverbs 27:5 or Matthew 7:6? If not, why do you think this is so? What do you think the practical implications of these 2 verses are for this site and for life in general? (1) "Do not give what is holy to dogs; and do not throw your pearls before swine; or...