Pentecost Is Like the Opening of the Aswan High Dam

John Piper provides the following helpful illustration of the Holy Spirit before and after Pentecost:

Picture a huge dam for hydroelectric power under ...

Power Outage Creates 'Cruise Ship from Hell'

On February 10, 2013, a fire broke out in an engine room of the Carnival cruise ship, Triumph. The fire knocked out the ship's power, leaving the ...

Director Forces Actor to Act like Jesus

In 1927 the director Cecil B. DeMille cast British-born actor H. B. Warner as Jesus in his famous silent film King of Kings. Warner, who 19 years later ...

Helium Balloon Demonstrates Our Life in Christ

To illustrate how the beauty and majesty of God can cause our hearts to desire him more than we desire sin, J. D. Greer writes:

Think of [our relationship ...

Information Alone Doesn't Change Behavior

In his book The Social Animal, David Brooks summarizes vast amounts of social science research by stating that "information programs alone are not ...

The Privilege of Having the Holy Spirit Live Within Us

Derek W. H. Thomas writes in “How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home”:

One recent summer, in a large urn that sits outside the front door ...

Chuck Swindoll on the Power of the Holy Spirit

Charles R. Swindoll writes in “Embraced By the Spirit”:

By the time I graduated from [seminary], I had many convictions and few questions, ...

Margaret Thatcher on Spirit's Agenda

When Christians meet…their purpose is not—or should not be—to ascertain what is the mind of the majority, but what is the mind of the ...

Church Father Tertullian on Trinity

It is an image of the Trinity as a plant, with the Father as a deep root, the Son as the shoot that breaks forth into the world, and the Spirit as that ...

Discovering the Holy Spirit

One of the more humorous quirks of scientific history is the debate over who should get the credit for discovering oxygen. Joseph Priestley, an English ...