Tope Koleoso preached an outstanding sermon last Sunday on the subject of God’s compassion. The challenge he gave us to share this compassion of God made the book of Jonah come to life in a fresh way. You can download the audio or video or watch it right here: Read more
I continue to receive some questions arising from my sermon on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I thought I would try and answer a couple more today. Q – I have been told that if I don’t pray in tongues there is something wrong with me and I am a second class Christian. I don’t know whether to give up or keep asking God for tongues. Nowhere does the Bible say that people who speak in tongues are better... Read more
So far I have shared a transciption from my recent sermon of my general thoughts on the gifts, on the word of wisdom and word of knowledge, and on miracles, faith, and healing. Today we move to discerning of spirits, tongues and interpretation. DISCERNING OF SPIRITSThis is a gift of recognizing the work of the enemy, but also recognizing the work of God. Sometimes I think we panic. Could it be the devil? Could it be God? Actually, God gives... Read more
Well, my friend and chess opponent has been posting photos on facebook of me looking distressed or hyper-concentrated whilst we were playing chess this afternoon. So, I couldn’t help myself but sharing the final score of our epic battle: Four games to me, three to him! The chess bug has returned. Any of you my readers think you could beat me online? Right now I feel invincible! I am not that good really, just a reasonable amateur. Never played in... Read more
This is the third part of a transcript of my recent sermon on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. You can see the video or download the audio on the introduction page or read about the word of wisdom and word of knowledge. FAITHThe presence of Faith in this list underlines a point, which is probably true about all of these gifts. In the context of this passage Paul is talking about gifts that are given for the good of... Read more
My new friend Matt Sweetman is leading the Newfrontiers Chicago Church plant. He has 197 prayer partners for this exciting venture. Will you be 200th? Or, as he is new to Chicago, if you live there or have friends who do, he wants to meet with as many residents one on one for coffee as possible to talk about what its like to live in the city. He is eager to learn everything he can. Whatever your church background (or... Read more
It is with great pleasure that I can now share with you all the final cover of my forthcoming Crossway book. Many of my readers helped with the process of choosing the cover, and for that matter the title too. There have also been a number of my friends and family who have helped already with the process of editing. Writing itself may be a lonely activity, but I have found that the input of others is invaluable. At the... Read more
This is the second part of an edited transcript of my sermon on The Gifts of the Holy Spirit. The first part includes a video and mp3 of the whole sermon, as well as listing ways you can submit your questions. The sermon is based on 1 Corinthians 12 where Paul lists the gifts, which I define as nine distinct ways in which the Holy Spirit works directly and specifically, and if you like, supernaturally or spiritually, within us. As... Read more
To submit more questions see the instructions on the page about my sermon on the Gifts. Adrian, do you think we will have all the gifts of the Spirit in ‘completeness’ in heaven? Did I hear/mishear what you said? Paul says that the gifts will pass away when we see Jesus face-to-face. But that passing away is because they will, in effect, be swallowed up in the perfection that we will receive (see 1 Corinthians 13). So, where there are... Read more
Over the next few days I will be serialising a lightly edited transcript of the sermon I preached last Sunday on the Holy Spirit’s activity within the Church today. I appreciate this is a subject that many people have questions on, so I have opened up a discussion thread on Facebook and The Gospel Coalition Network for us to discuss these issues. Feel free to also submit questions or comments via a Twitter comment @adrianwarnock. You can download the audio... Read more
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