the presence of the spirit is revealed by convulsive shiverings and shakings of the man’s whole body, by wild gestures and excited looks, all of which are referred, not to the man himself, but to the spirit which has entered into him; and in this abnormal state all his utterances are...
Next came the realization that God had given him a gift for preaching, and his church licensed him to do so. Lott ministered to a small black congregation for a time, and under his leadership, it grew to over eight hundred members. Lott began receiving invitations to preach all over Virgi...
I am learning to rest in them, to find comfort in God’s character (God is good and is working all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purposes), and to seek God for what I am learning in the season of waiting.I talk about how in ...
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under his most gracious rule; who lives and...
We assume here—what is elsewhere proved by Catholic apologists—that a supernatural revelation of Himself has de facto been given by God in the Jewish and Christian religions, and guaranteed by such evidence that men are reasonably bound to accept it; and we assume, further, that our authorita...
There is only one possible answer to this difficulty. Each attribute of God is coterminous with God. God is light, God is love, God is righteousness, God is holiness. Yet God himself has in his revelation instructed us to make distinctions with respect to his Being. These distinctions help...
Kratos then decides to make the journey by walking himself alone, while leaving Atreus behind with the seer, believing that he is not ready yet. The elderly seer tells Atreus that his father has successfully killed the Beast-Men and has taken away most of their own shapeshifting abilities ...
We are told to resist the devil and to choose life. Each thought is a choice of what I am going to allow my attention to rest on. It can be hard to begin with. But it gets easier and easier. God has given as all Himself. We must turn toward him like a mirror and find ...
One year, our small group took the Lord’s supper together and we “remembered” Jesus. He said when He did the Last Supper,do this is in remembrance of Me. So we literally remembered Jesus. We remembered our favorite story about Jesus and how He revealed Himself to us through it. ...
If God revealed Himself to all humanity in the way that we want, we would haveno choiceto believe in Him and follow Him. If God showed up in all His power and glory — if we survived this appearance (which we probably wouldn’t) — we would be forced to submit to Him. ...