Holy Spirit

Jesus’ ministry was bookended by important forty day periods of time. While he was alone in the wilderness during his first forty days, his final forty days was spent with others. What did he do during those fascinating forty days between his resurrection from the dead and ascension to heaven? What does it mean for us today?

The “Fruit of the Spirit” is not a moral, to-do list, but a pastoral reminder of what life lived with God’s Spirit will look like. Pray these words just as we practice these truths.

As a light bulb finds a current from outside its glass case, we find real power from beyond ourselves. The Spirit of God is the source of all true freedom.

Many today are disillusioned with the church or just disinterested in it. This message will take modern concerns seriously and reflect on a passage that offers a refreshing vision for the church.

“Grace has a grand laughter in it,” writes the novelist Marilynne Robinson. If we’ve experienced the marvelous and mysterious love of God, we can’t help but find shock and even laughter to think that the God of the universe has gone to the very ends of himself to win us back for himself.

How can we as modern people trust that the Bible, written by humans, is true? How can we believe all that it says about us and God? How do we find real peace, comfort, and courage in a world often punctuated with pain? The answer to these and many other questions lie in what Jesus taught his followers about the Holy Spirit.