“He breathed on them and said, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (John 20:23). When 37-year-old neurosurgeon Paul Kalinithi died of lung cancer in 2015, he and his wife had already completed an ...

When I was young, one of the things my friends and I loved doing was playing sports (usually after school). As you can imagine, playing football without pads can be a little risky. The most common ...

The day the church was born, on Pentecost, there was the sound of a mighty rushing wind. The term used for “wind” is the same for “breath” or “spirit.” Another way to say the Holy Spirit is to say the ...

The prophet Ezekiel’s narrative of the vision shown to him in chapter 37 has always been fascinating to me. Even as a young boy reading this story, vivid images of piles of human bones stretching ...

In the Creed, Christians proclaim their belief that the Church is holy. But let’s be honest: the Church is far from perfect. We see its flaws all too often. So, what does it really mean to say the ...

For a majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a third of the Trinity, and memorizing verses about the spirit of God are encouraged to do. "The Triune God", also known as the Father, Son, and the ...

"Let everything that has breath praise the Lord," the author writes in Psalm 150, verse 6. Over the past month, I’ve been thinking about breathing with more regularity. My husband, Justin, got me a ...

Throughout the Easter season, we have heard readings that highlight the role of the Holy Spirit in comforting, sustaining, inspiring and empowering believers in Christ. On Pentecost, as the Holy ...

Pentecost let everyone hear the gospel in their first language. Bible translators work to give others that intimate experience too. Pentecost reveals a God who understands that language is more than ...

In 1957 a Dutch theologian named George Johan Sirks published an article in the Harvard Theological Review provocatively titled: "The Cinderella of Theology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit." Sirks ...