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The present-day operation of all spiritual gifts and the experiential dimension of the Holy Spirit.
Key question: “How is the Holy Spirit actively manifesting His power and gifts in the church today?”
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Imagine a dimly lit room, the air thick with anticipation and the faint murmur of prayer rising like incense. It’s the late 1960s, and a group of young people—long-haired, barefoot, and filled with a fiery spirit—gathered in a small church...
In the film *War Room*, we meet Elizabeth, a devoted wife and mother whose heart is heavy with the burden of her failing marriage. As she navigates the tumultuous waters of conflict at home, she finds herself seeking refuge in...
In the desert tradition, the abbas and ammas spoke of a monk who spent thirty years in solitary prayer. When a visitor finally sought him...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton described a moment when his carefully constructed spiritual identity simply fell away. He had spent years building what...
In the monastery chapel at three in the morning, a single candle burns. The wind pushes through cracks in the old stone walls, and the...
In a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, a brother spent twenty years in the silence. Each morning before dawn, he sat in centering prayer, releasing every...
When Jesus spoke, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you," He was not offering a concept to be grasped but a...
There is a moment in centering prayer when the mind finally stops reaching. The sacred word dissolves. The breath slows. And in that vast interior...
In the monastery at Avila, Teresa once described the interior castle as having rooms the soul must enter without knowing what lies ahead. The deepest...
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment every practitioner dreads — the moment when the sacred word dissolves and you are left...
Imagine a small, sun-drenched coffee shop nestled in the heart of a bustling city. The clatter of cups and the aroma of freshly brewed coffee fill the air as a group of vibrant, young believers gathers for their weekly prayer...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night prayer when a violent thunderstorm shook the abbey walls. The windows rattled,...
In the show *The Chosen*, we witness moments brimming with both power and profound compassion. Picture the scene where Jesus encounters a blind man named Bartimaeus. The dusty streets of Jericho are filled with the hustle and bustle of life....
In the monastery chapel at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during night vigils when the wind howled against the Kentucky hills, rattling windows...
In Joshua 1:9, God commands Joshua to "be strong and courageous." We imagine courage as a battle cry, a charge into the fray. But the...
In the practice of centering prayer, there comes a moment Thomas Merton called "the point of nothingness" — when the sacred word dissolves, when thoughts...
In her autobiography, Teresa of Avila describes the soul's interior castle — room after room leading deeper toward the center where God dwells. Most of...
Imagine a vibrant church in Southern California during the late 1960s, where the air is thick with anticipation and the scent of ocean breeze mingles with the warmth of hope. A charismatic pastor named Chuck Smith, with his well-thumbed Bible...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how words spoken from the surface of the mind remain merely words. But a word that...
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described a moment during centering prayer when every thought finally fell silent — not the silence of...
Teresa of Avila described the soul as a castle with many mansions, and at the very center, in the innermost room, Christ waits. Most of...
In the monasteries of medieval Spain, Teresa of Avila observed something paradoxical about the soul's journey. The deeper one traveled inward through prayer, the more...
In the writings of John of the Cross, there comes a season he calls the dark night — when every familiar consolation withdraws, when prayer...
Thomas Merton once described a moment in his Louisville hermitage when he realized his hours of centering prayer had not made him holier than the...