Practical application of Pentecostal theology in politics, economy and social issues
Proverbs 3:6 (NASB)
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
What is the difference between a "way" and a "path"?
More specifically, what is the significance in using two different words…
Edit Note : I am not attempting to discover the grammatical subject of the text. I do not believe there is one. The passive indicative has no subject. The predicate of the verse is clearly a concept regarding how faith relates to righteous…
I am trying to prepare a talk on Ephesians and as part of my preparation/exegesis, I was attempting a grammatical diagram of Ephesians 6:10-6:20 using the UBS5 text. I am doing this in order to understand the argument of the author and am …
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind….
Is this merely repetition saying "God ain’t a human being" twice in a row for emphasis, or is there more nuance?
According to Luke 4:1-2, Jesus, after his water baptism at the Jordan river, was full of the Spirit and was led by the Spirit to a 40-day fast:
Now Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led around by the Spirit …
A long time ago, I was reading in Exodus and came to 3:15, which speaks of the Lord’s Name and also His memorial, and the thought occurred to me – Most people (including myself up to this point) probably probably see the Lord being God to …
John 2:11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
John 2:23 Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people saw the signs…
Anger and wrath are listed separately in a list in Colossians 3:8, and Ephesians 4:26 might indicate that there is some difference in Paul’s mind between the term anger and the term wrath.
Col 3:8 – But now you also put off all these thin…
1 Corinthians 12 (ESV):
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
27 Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, secon…
In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians Paul indicates that he prefers to pray both in (or with) the Spirit and in (or with) the mind.
τί οὖν ἐστίν; προσεύξομαι τῷ πνεύματι, προσεύξομαι δὲ καὶ τῷ νοΐ· ψαλῶ τῷ πνεύματι, ψαλῶ δὲ καὶ τῷ…
152 Response to The Report from Dialogue for Promoting Pontifical of the Pentecostal Quinquennium of the Council Roman Catholic Church and Some Churches and…
Context of "receiving the Holy Spirit":
14 Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, 15 who came down and prayed for them that they would receive the Holy …