For them, there’s no real sense of the active, personal presence of the Holy Spirit in the work of art-making. The Spirit is merely experienced as a nebulous and distant reality or, at worst ...

The Holy Spirit fills the space and the disciples ... This changed in 1984 when he attended a series of lectures on the history of Christian art by Nalini Jayasuriya, a Sri Lankan Christian artist and ...

Pentecost rejects a tepid Christian life. The Lord Jesus said to the apostles, “I have come to cast a fire on the earth” ...

The word Pentecost comes from the Greek pentēkostē, meaning "fiftieth." It commemorates the moment when Christ, having risen ...

All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.' Today we celebrate ...

He was a self-identifying Christian--the first one ... This is as ordinary as oxygen and carbon dioxide, and as extraordinary as spirit and miracle. What happens to a person when the Holy Spirit ...

And we must also have faith that God can, and does, want to use His Holy Spirit in powerful ways in each of our individual lives. In his book "Hearing God," Christian writer Dallas Willard speaks ...

praying to or even remembering the Holy Spirit. Western Christian practices and conversation often centers on the intellectualization of faith rather than the embodied, corporeal, sacramental ...

an effort to take all the humanness and experiences of the men in the conclave and partner with the Holy Spirit — in Christian belief, an equal person of the Trinity, with the Father and the Son ...

may have less to do with whether or not the Holy Spirit is calling a certain number of people to this way of life and more to do with whether the rest of the Christian community actually ...