#Spirit

St. Paisios said to a theologian who felt he needed to ‘tell the truth’ to a woman and crushed her: “Look, you may be tossing golden crowns studded with diamonds
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A bit on La Befana, Italian witch of Christmas:She represents the "the connection btwn the living & the dead" (https://www.radicisiciliane.com/blog/la-befana-christmas-witch-goddess-of-ancestral-spirit-fascist-propaganda-befan
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I’m not much of a New Year’s resolution person but I do thoroughly believe in planning and preparing to live in pursuit of God & Christlikeness, in pursuit of love,
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(1) Practicing the Presence of God: A Thread. Okay, this might sound weird to some of you, and to others, this sounds very exciting. So, I'm going to try to
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Orthodoxy is, first of all, an orthodoxy of life and not an orthodoxy of indoc- trination. From this point of view, her- etics are not so much those who con-
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How to hear GodThis is for you if you are a Christian and hearing God seem to be abstract or difficult or unattainable for you...That God speaks to you isn't
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It would be a mistake to act today just as Jesus acted in the first century because Jesus belonged to a particular historical context, and that particular historical context is
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Other elements may vary but I believe to my bones this is the bottom line in every situation where a Christian leader has lived in gross hypocrisy, carrying on a
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Last weekend I led a former Jehovah Witness to Christ & prayed for her to receive the baptism of the Spirit. But she didn't speak in tongues.Why? It's not because
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The following thread is for people familiar with the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement. I don't expect that most others will get much out of it. Atheists and non-believers will probably want to
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You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel 1945; Gerry and the Pacemakers, 1963) is a fascinating example of the invention of traditionhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/04/how-youll-never-walk-alone-came-to-define-liverpool-fc-spirit-ge
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"There cannot a greater judgment befall a country than such a dreadful spirit of division as rends a government into two distinct people, and makes them greater strangers and more
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Mamiwata: The West African Goddess:Mami Wata is a water-spirit, sometimes described as a mermaid figure, who can be found throughout the western coastal regions, and into central Africa. Mami Wata
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A good and needed reminder for us in the church when we find our faith being rejected by non-believers. Pay special attention to Jesus’ words in those last two verses!
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Medieval theologians tend to give a lot of space to angels in their doctrine of creation. For example, when Peter Lombard examines creation, he gives one section (distinction) to creation,
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Ezekiel 3 this morning. Opens with God’s command to the prophet, “Eat this scroll.” (Makes me think of the marvelous little book by Eugene Peterson entitled with this same phrase:
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