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There are 3 basic grounds for the claim that the Holy Spirit intends us to strive to speak in tongues throughout the church age: (1) In Acts 2:38-39 Luke's Peter promises the gift of the Holy Spirit throughout the church age: "You will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is...

HOW TO AUTHENTICALLY SPEAK IN TONGUES Bible commentators generally agree that Paul intends speaking in tongues to be included among the spiritual gifts we are to strive to exercise: "Strive for the greater gifts (1 Corinthians 12:31)." "Strive for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may...

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 hope that God would meet me in the Pentecostal camp...

AN ADC AS PHYSICAL AS ANY OF JESUS' RESURRECTION APPEARANCES (4a) :Leonard was a wealthy elderly businessman who was a beloved member of a church I pastored in western New York. On a few occasions I had dinner with him and his wife Helen. He was very anxious that I visit his brother, his wife...

lforrest: "Where does Berserk claim to see dead people? None of the ADE posted thus far are his own. Dave resorts to insulting lying fabrications when his fallacious reasoning is exposed and he has no other answers. windmillcharge: "Jesus physically appeared to the disciples over a period of...

All 3 statements are absurdly giggle-worthy and shared by no modern academic commentaries on Acts and 1 Corinthians. Dave pontificates from blissful ignorance of the situation at Corinth, where believers spoke in uninterpreted tongues all at once in the flesh and with no apparent apostolic...

Too bad that your positions are formulated without the intellectual integrity of consulting recent academic commentaries on the biblical books in question, commentaries that refute your position.

My experience of posting on Christian internet sites has confirmed just how closed-minded anti-Charismatics like Dave truly are. His ludicrous reference to "a few questionable sects" at Azusa Street demonstrates that, as usual, he lacks the intellectual integrity to even watch the videos he...

The Welsh Revival of 1904-05 soon spread in 1906-08 to Azusa Street in Los Angeles, the place where global Pentecostalism was birthed--a revival that has led to 600 million converts. The spearhead of the revival is the most spiritually effective African American of all time, William Seymour; and...

Luther knew that we would inevitably sin again. He wanted us to confess the sin and immediately get back to experiencing Jesus as the joy bringer, as evangelist Gipsy Smith used to say. That's what Luther meant by "Sin boldly." Luther loved to use shock tactics like Jesus. Once he was asked...

The church's greatest need is for a genuine national revival. Most Christians believe they long for a revival, but they show by their actions that actually don't. If they did, they'd have a passionate longing to know how historical revivals come, but in my experience, very few believers are...

(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...