Understanding the Person and ministry of the Holy Spirit—His deity, personality, baptism, filling, gifts, fruit, and ongoing work in believers.
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04057 The resurrection of the dead is at the heart of Christian hope, and it is easy to speak of it in terms of God’s power without attending to the specific way the New Testament describes how that power operates. When Scripture speaks about resurrection, the Holy Spirit is presented not merely as a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04058 When Christians think about the future, attention tends to focus on the events of the end times: the rapture, the tribulation, the return of Christ, the millennial kingdom. Less commonly asked is what the Holy Spirit will be doing through all of this. Yet Scripture has more to say on the subject than…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04028 Evangelism is frequently presented as a matter of technique: the right approach, the right words, the right moment. But the New Testament consistently locates the power behind effective gospel witness not in human skill but in the Holy Spirit. Understanding the Spirit’s role in evangelism changes both the way we engage in it…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04029 Worship is one of the most debated practices in the contemporary church, with strong feelings on all sides about style, content, and what makes worship authentic. But the New Testament’s definition of true worship is not primarily about music or liturgy. It is about the Spirit. Understanding the Spirit’s role in worship reshapes…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04026 Prayer is not a skill that can be fully mastered through technique or discipline alone. The New Testament presents the Holy Spirit as intimately involved in the believer’s prayer life, not as an optional enhancement for those who have progressed beyond ordinary prayer, but as a necessary participant in prayer that actually reaches…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04027 Assurance of salvation is not a luxury reserved for the theologically confident. It is something the New Testament presents as genuinely available to every believer, and the Holy Spirit plays a central role in making it real. This is not a matter of working oneself up to a sufficient level of emotional certainty;…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04024 One of the most misunderstood aspects of the Holy Spirit’s ministry is His work of conviction. Popular usage often treats conviction as a vague feeling of spiritual unease, something close to guilt. But Jesus’ description in John 16 is far more specific, and far more searching. Understanding what the Spirit actually does when…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04025 There is a real difference between reading the Bible as a piece of ancient literature and reading it as the living Word of God speaking into your situation. That difference is not primarily about intelligence or education. It has everything to do with the Holy Spirit’s work of illumination, the ministry by which…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04021 Sanctification is not simply a matter of moral improvement or religious discipline. It is the Spirit’s work in the believer, transforming what we are from the inside out rather than merely adjusting behaviour on the surface. Understanding how the Spirit actually does this changes the way a Christian approaches the whole project of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04022 Paul’s instruction in Galatians 5:16 is not a vague encouragement to be more spiritual. “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh” is a precise description of a way of living that has practical content. The question of what it actually means to walk by the Spirit…