The Holy Spirit Of God Essay

After I turned sixteen (16) years of age, I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit calling to me and directing me to serve as a missionary in the field. My internal strength is always my sense of faith since I feel so strongly that my destiny lies in helping my neighbour as well as seeking a higher purpose that my faith leads me towards a path of tranquillity and harmony with my Father. As a result of my predilection of helping others, I have decided to act onto God's will and gravitate towards missionary service rather than talking but, in fact, executing my quest. In addition, the realization of assisting altruistically my fellow man on a global basis added another layer of purpose that serves my Father on several levels towards my missionary life. For example, I’ve always felt a need to help other to seek a better life for themselves spiritually, physical, and mentally since I have made a consciousness decision to follow my desire help others for the greater need of others rather than my own needs that is more than satiating my need to work with those in need of life skillsets.

Letter to Utinger – This letter is Zwingli’s efforts of defending himself and dispelling false rumors about him having inappropriate relations with a daughter of a high official. After saying how he has taken a vow of celibacy and that studying theology and Scripture weakens any sensual desires, he does concede that he had relations with her in a time of temptation. So, he denies the rumors that he seduced her (and possibly raped her) and says that not only was the decision mutual, but also that the entire town of Einsiedeln knew about it and did not care.

Mark R. McMinn’s (2011) Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality in Christian Counseling establish a way to bring Psychology, Theology, and Spirituality to Christian Counselors. He introduces a replica of how to integrate the three disciplines in the counseling office. The purpose of the book is to instruct counselors how to integrate categories of Psychology, Theology and Spirituality into Christian Counseling. McMinn (2011) contends that many challenges both professional and personal face Christian Counselors on the frontier of intradisciplinary integration. (Intradisciplinary integration is the new emerging frontier for Christian Counselors).

The Sermon on the Mount is a sermon given by Jesus Christ found in the book of Matthew in the Holy Bible. The beginning of this sermon includes a list of blessings called the Beatitudes. Jesus uses these to explain God’s favor towards those who are striving for righteousness. For those who had come to believe and follow Jesus as the son of God, every word that he spoke in the Sermon on the Mount was intended as words of encouragement for Jesus’s disciples and were taken as such. For those who were skeptical, the crowd, that Jesus was truly the son of God, Jesus’s words took on a totally different meaning. The Beatitudes, simple words that promote the humility of man, were explicit words of encouragement for Jesus’s disciples. Yet at the same time, to the crowd listening, the Beatitudes were an implicit invitation to become men of God by believing that this man is God in the flesh, God in spirit, God almighty, God omniscient, God omnipresent, and God omnipotent.

The baptism of the Holy Spirit. What is it and how do I get it? A teaching from Pat Robertson. The first of two parts.

Spiritual practice and theological inquiry are not mutually exclusive, rather they possess an intrinsic connection. This relationship also exists between spirituality and self-reflexivity, promoting an examined life which connects to a larger moral vision that extends beyond the self into the community. Spirituality, theological inquiry, and self-reflexivity interact as a paradox of religious identity rooted in one’s being while also being critically open, fair-minded, and participatory in dialogue. Karl Rahner’s “The Hearer of the Message” delineates the inherent connectivity between academic and spiritual life, religious tradition and community, theology and self-reflexivity. Through the lense of Rahner, I will argue that the self-reflexive writing and pursuit of philosophical theology in both religious and academic contexts is a spiritual practice.

The gospel has traditionally and popularly been known as the Jewish gospel, sometimes over against Luke or John as the gentile gospel. The following facts illustrate that the gospel is written for Jewish Christians. Matthew includes sayings from Q and M that stress the continuing validity of the law (Mt 5:17-48).His readers then were probably Jewish Christians for whom the Jewish law was relevant. He shows interest on matters that are distinctively Jewish such as Sabbath, temple etc. Mathew does not explain Jewish customs. Luke traces Jesus ancestry back to Adam, father of human race, Matthew back to Abraham, father of Jewish

To ignore or overlook the call of God in an individual believer, the church as a whole, or the community in which God has placed them, would be missing the opportunity to transform lives to the glory of God. There is no small or big call to where God calls and places the believer; it’s just His call.

Mysticism is a word we find in many books that relate to religious experiences. Mysticism is interpreted as searching for spiritual truth and wisdom through the unification with the Divine. Many Christians today believe that the words associated with mysticism like meditation and mystic are not coherently related with Christianity, but more with many Eastern religions. Eastern religions are definitely known for their mysticism, but it is believed to not be a part of Christianity. Mysticism is actually a vital part of Christianity in ways that are more spiritual rather than only being engaged with Christian rituals. Mysticism is the faith that spiritual reality is believed to be from human knowledge and their senses. It searches for truth

understand my call to ordained ministry as the same as other baptized children of God. My calling is, however, to the ministry of Word and Sacrament. This is to proclaim the gospel and administer the sacraments according to

What I wish to suggest to you is that religious life is a particular and radical way of saying "Yes" to that call. In a very stark and naked way, it makes plain the plot of every human life, which is the answering of a summons. In our odd way of life, we make explicit what is the drama of every human search for identity, as every human being tries to catch the echo of the voice of God calling him or her by name. Other Christian vocations, such as marriage, also do this, but differently, as I will suggest

The various gifts of the Holy Spirit as listed in Scripture are conveyed according to the will of the Holy Spirit to every man for the eventual purpose of the edification and building up the church body.

When discussing and proving the person of Christ, there are two basic laws that must be addressed and proven. First you must prove that Christ is one hundred percent human (humanity), then you must prove that at the same time Christ is one hundred percent God (deity).

Seeing eight of my brothers and sisters super excited made me disappointed about myself. I remeber those days when my elders were coming home with smiles on their faces which made me cry, I was really happy for them and was wishing I could share their happiness as well but, I could not. I did not had what they had. I didnt even know what it was, that they are really happy about. Finally I asked them why they were so happy about and they told me they got a gift from God himself. I couldn’t understand how that was possible. I wanted to be happy too so I just wished that I will receive that gift from God as well.

I don’t generally believe that God speaks directly to me, but this summer some things have happened to me that cannot be explained except to say some type of divine intervention took place. One of these things that happened was God changed my long held view that I had. I myself was once a young earth creationist even though my father (a retired Southern Baptist minister), did not believe in a strict interpretation of the 6 days of creation. My thoughts have changed on this topic after Dr. Fiensy’s OT research class this summer.