Few things in the Bible have created more fuss than the issue of speaking in tongues. Churches have split over it. People have been persecuted for doing it. People have even been killed for it. Pastor Harley Kolterman brings clarifying teaching about kinds of prayer beginning with 1 Corinthians 14:14, 15, 18 ESV 14: “For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also. … I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.”
Paul urges us in Galatians 5:16 to, “Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” We have a...
Jesus is our perfect model of grace and truth. He loved people unconditionally despite their sinful and “unclean” status, yet he spoke and applied...
The call to follow Jesus and its relationship to evangelism ring clearly throughout the New Testament. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will...
