Category: THE HOLY SPIRIT

Tongues Don’t Make Your Prayers More Effective

Tongues Don’t Make Your Prayers More Effective

A commonly held view in much of the Church is that God is more inclined or more able to assist you if you pray in tongues. Is this true?

Tongues Can’t Make You into a More Spiritual Christian.

Tongues Can’t Make You into a More Spiritual Christian.

I've heard people declare that if your church doesn't have people speaking in tongues and being slain in the spirit, you should find a different church, because the Holy Spirit isn't there. Jesus Christ's answer to that one is this:  "For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them" (Matthew 18:20).

Six Things the Gift of Tongues Can’t Do, Part 1: Tongues Can’t Make You Speak In Heavenly Languages.

Six Things the Gift of Tongues Can’t Do, Part 1: Tongues Can’t Make You Speak In Heavenly Languages.

The gift of speaking in tongues is often described as the ability to speak in heavenly languages: the languages of angels or of the Holy Spirit Himself. Does this belief stand up to close Biblical scrutiny?

Rapture or Not?

Rapture or Not?

Views of the "rapture of the Church" vary enormously, from people not believing that it's a Biblical event at all and who say it will never happen, to the insistance that all true believers will be whisked from the earth any day now, in order to save us all from suffering and from what's to come upon the earth during the "Tribulation".

How Not to Have a Revival

How Not to Have a Revival

Will the world see a spiritual revival before the return of Jesus Christ? Is it our duty and calling to bring about that revival? If so, should it be done through a movement of spiritual gifts, tongues and modern-day prophets and apostles? I discuss here the fallacies of such faulty theology and false teachings on the subject.