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Holy Spirit

Proclamation Trust and the Holy Spirit – EMA 2010

March 10, 2010

The Evangelical Ministry Assembly 2010 will focus on the ministry of the Holy Spirit in the life of the preacher, with John Piper as the headline speaker and Terry Virgo also involved.
Those of you who know British Church life, and particularly the history of the last few decades, will be amazed at this. To be clear, [...]

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Sam Storms On Pastoring As A Reformed Charismatic

February 11, 2010

In the following inteview, Sam and I speak about what it is like for him to pastor as a reformed charismatic. It is a very interesting exchange, and one I very much enjoyed filming:

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Pastors Conference Day One

February 2, 2010

Yesterday was an amazing day.  The relational warmth of the people here and their passion for Jesus is infectious.  It was exceptional to meet Sam Storms, who I interviewed via email back in 2006, and whose ministry I have watched from afar. Look out for a video interview with him in the not-too-distant future [...]

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Holy Spirit Baptism Testimony

December 12, 2009

I received this testimony from someone in an email recently.  I asked them if I could share it here anonymously and they graciously agreed.  Having grown up as a cessationist, God had other plans for them:
I set myself to reading all I could find on the subject, searching the Scriptures, and praying over the matter. [...]

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John Piper The Charismatic

October 23, 2009

John Piper’s website has many places where he reveals a charismatic or as some call it continuationist perspective. Earlier in the week he argued that even in the New Testament the gifts of the Spirit were non-authoritative and inferior to the Apostles teaching:
The apostles viewed their teaching as from God in an authoritative, inerrant [...]

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30 Years Ago Today John Piper Responds To God’s Voice

October 14, 2009

Justin Taylor has served us well by putting together a fantastic post explaining how Piper responded to God’s call to the pastorate 30 years ago today. There are a number of links in the post that are all worth following.

I will share just three extracts here which combine to make it clear that [...]

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Spurgeon On Second (& Third, Forth and Fifth) Blessings

October 6, 2009

Had a great email from a reader of my blog in Asia which I reproduce with permission in its entirety:
I’m a faithful reader of your blog and a missionary in China. Thanks for being a place to go over the last couple years as God has increased my desire to “have it all“. [...]

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Conflict Resolution Requires Spirit-Filling

October 4, 2009

Today’s quote from the Doctor is on the subject of conflict resolution. Writing about Ephesians 5, Lloyd-Jones stresses the source of the only true solution for human conflicts:
The world is characterized by divisions, by clashes, everybody wanting to be first, everybody wanting to be important. That is, of course, the main cause of all [...]

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Lloyd-Jones on Howell Harris

August 5, 2009

If you are looking for an introduction to Church History, my friend Lex’s blog is a fantastic resource. It is well worth a read. Take for example, this entry on Lloyd-Jones’s take on a famous Welsh preacher who experienced a baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Lloyd-Jones writes, [of Harris] ‘Another extract from his diary says, ‘In [...]

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Faith To Wait

June 13, 2009

Terry Virgo blogged about how faith can lead to sudden healing, or sustain us in years of waiting:
A lady in Oregon, with a . . . mixture of tears and laughter, told me that, having been prayed for the previous evening, she was able to put her own socks on that morning for the first [...]

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Spiritual Gifts – That’s It From Me, But More From Others

June 12, 2009

If my series on the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which is now finished, has left you wanting to know more, then I encourage you to listen to three talks from my friend, Joel Virgo. Joel leads the Brighton Newfrontiers church, CCK. His first talk speaks about something I have blogged about previously, apostles today. [...]

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Seeking the Giver and His Gifts

June 11, 2009

As we draw to the end of this series on the gifts of the Spirit, I want to conclude by thinking a bit more about what is the purpose of these gifts. The gifts are a foretaste of heaven, of our restored relationship with God. They are one way to draw us into the [...]

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A Prophecy Told Me I Should Marry – Spiritual Gifts Q and A 3

June 10, 2009

The details of the following situation have been changed to protect the anonymity of those involved.
Q. A friend of mine has come to me for advice. His girlfriend has told him that one of her close friends told her that God wanted them to hurry up and get married. He is not so sure as [...]

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The Gift of Prophecy – How To Test It

June 9, 2009

In today’s post I continue to share an edited transcript of my sermon on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. The following is a list of questions to ask yourself as you test a prophecy:

Is it upbuilding and encouraging? Does it leave you feeling positive? Even if there is an element of rebuke in [...]

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