Maybe the Spirit is Making a Comeback?
Maybe the Spirit is Making a Comeback? Gotta love that line from The Dubious Disciple’s review of Bob Cornwall’s Unfettered Spirit: Spiritual Gifts for the New Great Awakening. You owe it to yourself to read the whole review.
Pentecost Sunday
Our current editing work on books to be released in the next month is very rich with thoughts for Pentecost Sunday. In each case, page numbers are from the advance reader copies and may vary slightly in the final edition. First, from Unfettered Spirit: Spiritual Gifts for the New Great Awakening by Bob Cornwall, pages…
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Everyone in Ministry
Dave Black has some suggetions, first: How can we provoke one another to love and good deeds in the service of others (Heb. 10:24)? One approach would be to become more proactive in the way we recognize those who are exercising their gifts in the Body. This is something Becky is doing at our church…
Understanding the Gifts Series
I wrote and publish two books on spiritual gifts, Identifying Your Gifts and Service, and Identifying Your Gifts and Service: Small Group Edition. Occasionally people wonder just how to use these two books. What is each one for. Briefly, Identifying Your Gifts and Service is a workbook designed to be used in conjunction with a…
Models for Spiritual Gifts
I’m focusing for a few days on the Holy Spirit and spiritual gifts and how they function in a congregation. A couple of days ago I blogged about the relationship between the fruit and gifts of the Spirit. Today I want to look at models. When I was first asked to teach about spiritual gifts,…
Spiritual Gifts, Fruit of the Spirit, and Love
One of the critical elements in understanding spiritual gifts is relating them properly to the Fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-26) and particularly to love. Many times we have a tendency to think of the work of the Holy Spirit in a chaotic, scattered fashion. Some groups focus on the Fruit of the Spirit, but…