For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...

How the Trinity is reshaping my preaching. Like many young pastors, I spent my early years of ministry torturing audiences through endless experiments with my preaching. I had been to seminary, ...

As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...

What Zilpha Elaw, Julia Foote, and Sojourner Truth taught me about God’s “withness.” A Methodist woman in Albany, New York, didn’t want to go hear Zilpha Elaw preach. For one thing, Elaw was a woman, ...

For those of us who are Christians there is something that has been lost since around the 2nd-3rd century after Jesus walked the earth. In Hebrew, the Holy Spirit is a feminine entity. Scholars are ...

The older I become the more I value the gift of a person’s presence instead of a tangible gift that is unwrapped, and then so many times forgotten. As I visit my 93-year-old mother, I hear her say in ...

The earliest Christians believed that Christ, although no longer present in the flesh, remained among them. Many words described this presence, but one of the most common was Spirit. New Testament ...

These past two weeks, writers from Quest Church have spoken on the topic of ‘Infinitely More’ and speaking to how God wants to do infinitely more in your life than you can ask or think of! This week, ...

If I were a betting man, I’d wager that the trope you most likely heard last Sunday was some variant of “Happy birthday!” Then you were probably told that Pentecost is the birthday of the Church. In ...