May 17, 2025
Filled with The Spirit
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May 16, 2025
The Spirit Filled Life
May 15, 2025
How To Live Filled With The Holy Spirit
May 14, 2025
Actions associated with being filled
A Condition for being filled on a continual basis The blog yesterday showed that Ephesians 5:18 exhorts us to be filled with the Holy Spirit on a continual basis. The present verb "filled" makes this clear. I also stated that a way to experience this continual work of The Holy Spirit (being under the influence of The Spirit) is based on humility. Humility is the experience of realizing that I do not have the internal power to be the person that I see in God's Word. Humility is the acknowledgement that I need God's Spirit to live the life of following Jesus. It is the humble person who can experience this continual influence of the Holy Spirit. That is because the truly humble person has a right assessment of their own need and a right assessment of God' provision. The proud person cannot receive much from God because the proud person does not assess that they need anything or at least not much from God. This is not a failure of God's power it is a failure of one not recognizing one's need. In this notion of being humble enough to experience God's continual presence of The Holy Spirit I remember a verse from Jesus' brother, James. James 4:5-6 reveals God's contrast in response to the proud and to the humble. Note in vs 5 about God's yearning "over the Spirit that he has made to dwell in us." Then James gives a contrast between the humble and the proud we see that God gives "more grace" (vs. 6). How can God give more grace.....well I want to suggest that God can give more grace to the humble because the humble have more capacity for grace. Think of it, a humble person is open to receive from God because they do not assume that they are capable in their own strength. Note also that the continual influence of The Holy Spirit would be impossible for the proud. God opposes the proud (vs. 6) because they do not recognize their need of God's Holy Spirit. REFLECT: So, instead of denying your inability and need for more grace, embrace it. God has "more grace" for you. This is life in the the continual influence of The Holy Spirit
May 13, 2025
A Path but not a Formula
May 11, 2025
Filled
May 10, 2025
Some personal experience
May 8, 2025
Filled with The Holy Spirit
Sty Close
May 7, 2025
Baptized then walking
May 5, 2025
Wesley and his counsel
May 4, 2025
Baptism with The Spirit
May 3, 2025
Finished but Not Finished
May 2, 2025
Why wait?
May 1, 2025
The Goal of God's Work
April 30, 2025
40 days of thoughts about Pentecost
Include Pentecost in the great movements of God's redemption through Jesus Christ
April 21, 2025
Jesus working as we rest
March 6, 2025
John Wesley's Passing
February 19, 2025
A discussion of Paul's use of the present tense
January 28, 2025
The tenses in Romans 7
January 6, 2025
Assertions about The Law.
December 19, 2024
Continuing to look at Romans 7
December 4, 2024
Understanding Romans 7
November 14, 2024
An exploration into one of the most controversial chapters in the Bible
October 15, 2024
Grace as Greater
September 25, 2024
John Wesley's Ordination
September 18, 2024
Component of a True Faith
September 5, 2024
The feature of "assensus"
August 19, 2024
The features of a lively faith
August 8, 2024
A vibrant view of faith
July 30, 2024
God of Holy Love
July 17, 2024
Holy Love
July 8, 2024
Wesley's view of Divine Predestination
June 20, 2024
Critical reflection on a most important truth
June 13, 2024
A lively faith
May 29, 2024
Wesley's Experience
May 16, 2024
What is the correct fuel for the "human machine?"
May 9, 2024
Is Holiness Normal or Abnormal?
May 2, 2024
Why God raised up the people called Methodist
April 25, 2024
Wesley's Doctrinal Teaching
April 17, 2024
Wesley's use of Perfect
April 11, 2024
Dynamic understanding of Salvation
April 2, 2024
Remembering Wesley's 1st Field Preaching experience
March 27, 2024
Wesley's guidance for groups
March 21, 2024
A significant part of Methodism of the ministry of The Wesley’s was in their music
March 11, 2024
Wesley's importance of remaining in the Anglican Church
February 27, 2024
Spiritual Growth in Community
February 19, 2024
Societies
February 6, 2024
Wesley's expansive efforts
January 29, 2024
Bristol as England's 2nd largest city offered many opportunities for ministry
January 22, 2024
Rope of Sand
January 15, 2024
Wesley's understanding of the vital features of Salvation
January 8, 2024
Wesley's Methods
December 18, 2023
Charles Wesley's Famous Carol
December 6, 2023
Need Both Evangelism and Discipleship
November 27, 2023
Wesley was an effective field-preacher. His efforts brought many to an understanding of saving faith in Jesus Christ. But Wesley was not satisfied to simply bring people to a saving faith; Wesley was concerned that people who were “born again” were helped to grow up in their faith.
November 6, 2023
Wesley’s upbringing and training for the Anglican priesthood, gives some insight into his being a “company man.” Wesley valued the Anglican liturgy, its 39 Articles of belief, and never left the church that left him by forbidding him in most places to preach.
October 4, 2023
Tunes by Wesley
September 27, 2023
In all we have considered about John Wesley and George Whitefield’s great work of field-preaching it is necessary to consider the contribution of Mr. CHARLES WESLEY.
September 7, 2023
Wesley's organizational efforts
August 24, 2023
Working Together Despite Differences
August 7, 2023
Wesley's Journey To Field Preaching
July 19, 2023
Preaching at St. Andrews Church
June 8, 2023
Aldersgate and Assurance
May 25, 2023
John & Charles Wesley's Journey to Assurance
May 16, 2023
I shared in a previous blog about the "conjunctive nature of the Christian Life and noted that John Wesley is a good example of a leader who understood this feature (Dr. Ken Collins' assertion). As you might recall...
April 26, 2023
As I have gotten older I have been more committed to paying attention to my health. Maybe you have had the same insight.
The New Testament features a series of "conjunctive" aspects that reveal a "both/and" rather than an "either/or" approach to Christian living
April 9, 2023
We all are very familiar with Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter morning but less familiar with ”Silent Saturday.”
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