Seven Ministries of the Holy Spirit Found in the Old Testament
One way of thinking about the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament is to examine every mention of the Holy Spirit and try to understand what we can learn about the Spirit.
One way of thinking about the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament is to examine every mention of the Holy Spirit and try to understand what we can learn about the Spirit.
God’s full and final promise of deliverance and protection is only seen in the light of final judgment revealed at the end of the ages.
Knowing who God is and who we are enables the favor of the Lord our God to rest upon us.
The great sign of faith is not the absence of difficulties or always emotionally feeling God’s presence. It is the dogged determination to hold on to the Lord in the midst of the storm.
This psalm gives us a glimpse, even if only fragmentary, of the engulfing anguish of that Man of Sorrows who stood in our place.
Many of our churches have been turned into celebration centers so that prayers of anguish, lament, and anger are not given space.
The Psalms include strong exhortation for us to listen and heed all the ways God speaks to us.
Many of the great prayers of the Psalms, both hopes and fears, are fulfilled in Jesus Christ. He is the fulfillment of all our hopes and the dispeller of our fears.
The history of Israel is a kind of lived parable from which we can discern the basic patterns of God’s dealings with humanity at any time, and in any age.
The glorious victory that belongs to us as Christians is because God has made war against the powers of sin and death.
How should Christians understand the will of God as it relates to suffering and evil, or pandemics such as COVID-19?
Before the final outpouring of God’s wrath and judgment, God himself in Jesus Christ has interrupted that wrath with an incredible act of grace—taking the cup of wrath and drinking it himself.