Please Hold The Lemon
Here is a big-old-fat-hairy lie: Sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never hurt me. Many of you reading today have long forgotten some bruising and beatings from your childhood years. Most of us men grew up fighting our peers on one level or another when we were boys. I was a short little…
So Now What?
Trusting that my purpose in sharing my own testimony about how God has led me in a journey with Holy Spirit has been accomplished, I conclude my posts in this mini-series today. From New York to the West Coast of America, to England & Africa, and back to my home state of Georgia, I have…
Part Six: Conflict & Clarity
One of the hardest things to accomplish in writing this mini-series on my personal journey with Holy Spirit has been choosing what to include and what to leave out. I am condensing close to twenty years of progress and illumination into a six-part blog series (thus far). Today, we come to another installment which brings…
Check Back Next Week…
Thanks to those of you who have contacted me, asking about the next part of the blogged testimony which I have been sharing lately. I really want to finish the series up in (hopefully) just one more post. My plan is to tackle that early next week. Until then, Happy Memorial Day weekend. I hope…
Part Five: 3 Adversaries & 1 Ally
The story continues today with my recount of that season wherein God began to convince me of the necessity of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. One lesson that the Lord has taught me over the years is that He is not obligated to use a template when working with each of His children. Oswald Chambers…
Part Four: When All Else Fails, Go With What The Bible Actually Says
If you are reading this fourth part of my personal testimony about my journey with the Holy Spirit, I commend you for hanging in there. My guess is that there are two types of people following this latest series of blog posts from me: 1) Those who are simply curious about how a Baptist pastor…
Part Three: Compromising My Calling
Today’s post follows the two previous posts that I shared last week regarding my own personal journey with the Holy Spirit. If you do not read the first two, this one will not make much sense. Last week’s posts contained my testimony about how God incrementally brought me from my beginning as a denominational cessaitonist,…
My Pentecost Sunday Prayer
Holy Spirit, Thank You for coming and fulfilling the promise of our Lord Jesus. He told His followers that You would come to live in us, to complete the work which He began. As the Father sent the Son, the Son sent You, and You are accompanying us as You send us forth to carry…
Part Two: Surpised By A Joy-Ambush
Because I have been asked to share my story as it pertains to the migration from Baptist cessationist to one who believes in the ongoing availability of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, it seemed prudent to put it down in writing for any who wished to understand the dynamics that led up to such a…
My Personal Journey With The Holy Spirit
With the launch of last month, many have wondered how I, as a Baptist minister, arrived at the place of leading our church into a journey that included the validating of the active status of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Granted, this belief is not the norm for those who have been Baptists their…