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The Holy Spirit and Christian Thinking

This entry is part 5 of 14 in the series Basic Discipleship of the Mind

Last week I included the Holy Spirit on a list of resources for thinking Christianly, with this qualification:   God is certainly not a “resource” in the same sense as the rest of this list, yet the list would be incomplete without him. We can’t progress in any form of discipleship apart from the Holy Spirit’s …

February 19, 2010 – 4:58 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Knowing God, Thinking Christianly | Tagged | Comments Off

The Holy Spirit: No Inconsistent Truths

There are inconvenient truths, there are even unwanted truths, but there are no inconsistent truths. Christians speak of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit in our lives as evidence that God is real. Often we are asked, “How do you know that your internal sense of God really is from God? Other people have …

May 19, 2009 – 3:44 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, The Faith | Tagged | Comments (77)

The Internal Experience of the Holy Spirit

Scripture tells us, and Christians commonly concur, that there is an internal experience of the Holy Spirit that assures us of God’s reality in our lives. It is not the only way we know God is real, but it is an important one. Paul asked yesterday, Could you describe in positive terms what this direct …

November 28, 2008 – 8:43 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , | Comments (300)

What Christ Does For Us, Part 4: Restorations

Earlier in this series (see below) I described what Scripture says about God’s original intent and purpose for humankind, and how we fell away from it. God in His love intended that we live in close, intimate fellowship with Him. He gave humans their start in conditions of harmony with the world, with genuine intellectual …

January 10, 2008 – 5:52 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (24)

How To Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

Can you keep your New Year’s resolutions in 2008? Have you tried in past years? How did you do? Most of us give up long before January ends. It’s surprisingly difficult, isn’t it, to make a decision about our personal habits and stick with it. Can we actually improve ourselves? The answer is no, we …

December 31, 2007 – 8:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , | Comments (16)