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Growing up, I was the youngest of five siblings—three boys, two girls. My brother, Kenny, five years my senior, was an ...

It happens to all of us, now and again, when a song’s melody or lyrics get stuck in one’s head. It is called an earworm, which Wikipedia describes as “that ...

With a powerful call to restore the centrality of the Holy Spirit in missionary work, Paulo Feniman, president of COMIBAM, opened the inaugural ceremony of the Ibero-American Missionary Congress ...

Faith! This is how the Christian life begins, and it is by faith that we continually live our journey in Christ. We’ve seen in the book of Galatians how the ...

The Rev. Skip Heitzig, senior pastor of Calvary Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, delivered a passionate call for Spirit-empowered evangelism during the European Congress on Evangelism in Berlin.

Imagine walking through life without the Holy Spirit. No inner guide. No advocate. No quiet voice in your spirit convicting ...

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of ...

Paul warned his readers that it’s possible to “quench the spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19). We might restrict the power of the ...

Christians celebrated the Feast of Pentecost, when we remember the coming of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus’ followers when he ...

The foundation of Baribault’s work at the church at 1080 Lisbon St. is rooted in the “baptism of the Holy Spirit,” something he experienced at a church service in Mount Shasta, California.

Some cardinals use Holy Spirit-accessing rituals that sound a bit like cognitive behavioral therapy. Pope Benedict XVI said it’s more like a “good educator” who doesn’t pick the pope but ...