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Holy Spirit

MLJ: Regeneration= unconscious, Baptism with Spirit= conscious

November 8, 2010

The Confluence blog has shared the following Lloyd-Jones quote: “It is clear that the baptism with the Holy Spirit is always something clear and unmistakable, something which can be recognized by the person to whom it happens and by others who look on at this person. This is obviously a most vital and important principle. [...]

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Terry Virgo: Speak with confidence about the central things

November 4, 2010

Terry Virgo is continuing to share his series of video interviews with his son. Today I share here another video which addresses Terry’s view of the Bible. Here is an extract from his words about things we must preach boldly and clearly: Present God in his person and character. Present Jesus without any disguise. We [...]

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Living between the ESV Study Bible and the Spirit Filled Life Bible

October 20, 2010

A couple of weeks back, Tope preached a very impactful sermon on the need for us to go on reading God’s word. I have permission to share a short extract from that here, where Tope is in full flow urging people to study God’s word. A line in there made me glad and I know [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Four – Spurgeon on Sealing and Faith

September 17, 2010

In today’s quote Spurgeon introduces the vital concept of “sealing” or assurance of our faith and relates it ultimately to the line from our hymn: Note also that this sealing does not necessarily come at once with faith. It grows out of faith, and comes “after that ye believed.” We are not in every case [...]

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Faith and Feelings Part Two – MLJ on why we can’t rely on feelings

September 15, 2010

Regular readers of this blog will know that I sit firmly in the tradition of Piper, Lloyd-Jones, Spurgeon, Edwards, and dare I say it Paul (!), who stresses the vital nature of the experiential side of Christianity. Now, as we begun yesterday, we are looking at the relationship between feelings and faith, initially by sharing [...]

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Terry Virgo: “apostolic” vs. “missional”

July 29, 2010

Today’s video may challenge some of your preconceptions. In it Terry Virgo is asked if there is a difference between being apostolic and missional. In it he argues that the main task of apostles was not to write Scripture, and says that most Evangelicals today have only been taught to obey the Bible as individuals [...]

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Pascal’s experience of God: something many modern Christians miss entirely

June 13, 2010

One fascinating thing that I quote in Raised With Christ is J. I. Packer’s assertion that Puritans were very unlike Christians today in that they liked to talk about their experiences of God. Today I want to share with you the record of a remarkable experience of God had by Pascal. The following quote is [...]

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Ed Stetzer Interviews Terry Virgo of Newfrontiers

May 24, 2010

Terry Virgo founded Newfrontiers back in the mid 1970s. He was church planting before it was cool. He formed a missional network before the phrase was coined. There are now over 700 Newfrontiers churches spread out on every continent. Most of these began as house churches. But many of them have grown to become warehouse [...]

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A reformed charismatic in 1984

April 8, 2010

A very dapper looking Terry Virgo shows that as a young charismatic he was very much already reformed. This idea that reformed charismatics are a “new breed” is shown to be wrong by this video from Downs Bible Week alone. Now if only someone could find me some video of my dear departed friend and [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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“. I’ve [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 presence [...]

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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 [...]

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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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