Three Reasons You Have Probably Not Blasphemed the Holy Spirit
The kind of person who blasphemes the Holy Spirit is not the kind of person who is worried about it.
The kind of person who blasphemes the Holy Spirit is not the kind of person who is worried about it.
So often authority gets couched in terms of enforcement of the law. For Jesus and his followers, authority became the license and empowerment to help people.
If a person can be filled with the Holy Spirit, they can also be half full, or even running on empty.
Something happens when a single person becomes profoundly present to another person in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Human limitations are transcended by Divine Presence.
For Jesus fasting was not about faithfulness to practice. Fasting was a means to intimate fellowship.
Jesus loves sinners and he is willing to walk right into the heart of sin, even if it looks bad; even if he gets accused of going soft on crime, because he loves sinners that much.
Sometimes our friends must have faith for us and sometimes that’s enough. Jesus didn’t see the faith of the paralyzed man. He saw the faith of his friends.
Real evangelism looks like witnesses telling stories in such a way that the people who hear them flock to the countryside in search of Jesus.
Listen Now! August 18, 2018 Mark 1:29-34 As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever,
The authority of Jesus becomes the authority of his followers through the authenticity of their fellowship in the Holy Spirit.