Archive for the 'Spiritual Growth' Category

Spiritual Gift Verses Spirit Directed Theology

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

This morning ladylighthouse asked on Twitter:
Anyone have any positives or negatives regarding spiritual gifts tests???
I gave a reply that pointed out that First Corinthians 12:11 indicates that the Holy Spirit gives the gifts and its not about you now and forever, but about Him and His timing.  This got me thinking about how my theology [...]

For You Have Not Come to a Mountain…

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Hebrews 12:18-24 is a powerful passage describing the contrast of the Old Testament Law with the New Testament position that the saint has.  The author of Hebrews writes with great brilliance as He points out the opposite nature of the Israelite at Mount Sinai and their relationship to the Almighty God and the saint’s relationship [...]

The Eternal Nature of God

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

While the topic of this post is probably worthy of a book (which I probably would have to devote huge amounts of time to) I wanted to touch on the idea of God’s eternal nature.  Often I hear, and just moments ago I heard it again, that our lives are like the lifespan of a [...]

Hebrews 8:1-3

Thursday, November 16th, 2006

Hebrews 8:1-3
1 Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
2 a minister in the sanctuary and in the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
3 [...]

Nothing is Too Great for God to Do. Nothing is Too Great for You to Do.

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

The title of this post is not quite a double-entendre.  The concept that I was thinking about was that God is all powerful and is limited only in the positive sense of His character.  That is to say that He cannot do evil things, but He can love with his pure, infinite, perfect love.  However, [...]