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CoreIssue: "Show me SLAIN in the spirit in the Bible You just need to get into the Word more: e. g. "When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead (Revelation 1:17)." "If all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who enters is reproved by all and called to account by all. The secrets of his...

(5) ATHEIST HOWARD SRORM'S THRILLING CONVERSION THROUGH AN NDE Howard Storm had been an atheist Art History professor who took delight in ridiculing the naivite of Christians. But he was gloriously saved through his NDE. Howard had previously been a university art history professor who took...

"Seedy" characters like Jesus' disciples and Paul. Oh, and if you had the intellectual integrity to actually watch the posted documentary on Azusa Street, you would learn (1) that the Martin Luther of the Pentecostal movement, William Seymour spend many hours over many days in prayer and...

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR VINCE AND OTHER ATHEISTS (1) Why are you an atheist instead of an agnostic? Vince: "I am an atheist because I fit the definition. I lack a belief in god...I believe that if god exists he should be knowable." How serious are you about confirming God's existence through...

Hobie, I'm highly amused by your myopic, perhaps deliberate oversight in ducking the 3 verses in 1 Corinthians 14 that justify private praying in tongues. As a retired New Testament professor, I'm giving you the homework assignment of identifying these 3 verses.:rolleyes:

(5) Russ (a judge) and his wife Linda had attended a UMC church I pastored in Western New York. After I moved to Buffalo for a new one-year pastoral appointment there, Linda called me one Thursday night to say that Russ was in Florida maintaining a deathbed vigil for his mother who was in a...

On the contrary, modern spiritual gifts produce even greater results than "the originals" in fulfillment of Jesus' promise not to the apostles, but to "the one who believes:" "Very truly I tell you, the one who believes in me will do the works that I do and, fact, will do greater works than...

(8) My next experience of the "word of knowledge" was unequivocally helpful. As part of Princeton's field education, I worked as a chaplain assistant at the Newark College of Engineering. The night prior to my drive to Newark, I had a nightmare, a premonitory dream in which I knew my life would...

7 ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS FOR VINCE AND OTHER ATHEISTS (1) Why are you an atheist instead of an agnostic? (2) If your skepticism were wrong, what evidence do you have that discovery of your error is your highest priority? (3) How do you know whether or not there are other types of evidence for God...

I returned to Buffalo a few years ago to perform the wedding ceremony for a young man whose family attended my church when I was a pastor there. He now attends the Chapel! Small world.

Dave L: "You make prayer to difficult and do not understand how the prayer of faith works." I have conducted a 6-hour workshop on prayer for lay leaders. Have you? Your arrogant presumption is ghastly and your judgmental spirit is a stain on your anti-charismatic piety. How many healing...

Not an English sentence! Congratulations, you just spoke in tongues!:rolleyes: Your gibberish seems to ignore the fact that 2 of my 4 cases feature a non-Pentecostal prayer partner and example (3) even features a Catholic exorcist succeeding where 2 Charismatic deliverance ministers failed! So...

(4) Jack Deere was an evangelical Presbyterian Old Testament professor at Dallas Seminary and an avowed cessationist. He was an elder in his church. A well educated female member asked the elders for prayer for her clinical depression, but their prayers had no effect. Then a Christian...

Here is a summary of the process by which Catholics with a reputation for the highest level of holy living get canonized as saints: The Process of Canonization for Catholic Saints The decision to label super-spiritual believers as unique "saints" bothers me for 4 reasons: (1) In my view the...

Yes, and as this thread will demonstrate, my exercise of "the word of knowledge" has been mightily used "for His purposes," as have spiritual gifts operating through our prayer group to routinely perform mighty miracles.

The Bible implies the doctrine of the preexistence of the soul, not reincarnation: 1. “Why was this man born blind, because of his own sins or (John 9:1-2)…The disciples’ question implies a belief that the man might have...

Our weekly prayer group continues to witness miracles in answer to prayer. In the past, these miracles include: the healing of the blind, the healing of 2 people's malignant brain tumors, and the instant healing of a huge inoperable blood clot, Last Monday, we learned of 2 more answers to...

But application of "the word of knowledge' can be a learning curve. (5) After this experience, my first exercise of “the word of knowledge” was the inner knowing that my future career would be aided by being honored for the highest GPA in my province in my senior year… A few years ago, my...

(4) THE SPIRITUAL HIGHLIGHT OF MY LIFE: MY SPIRIT BAPTISM At age 16 I was so nagged by doubts about the reliability of Scripture and the authenticity of charismatic manifestations in church that my faith crisis prompted me to spend a week at Manhattan Beach Camp near Ninette, Manitoba with the...

2. THE NAZARETH TABLET INSCRIPTION The Nazareth inscription is a tablet from the emperor, warning that the penalty for grave robbing is death. Most scholars date it to the time of Claudius (c. 41 AD). In 1878 it was initially brought to Nazareth, Jesus' home town. If Claudius is indeed the...