1. THE INCREASE OF KNOWLEDGE Nothing is now hidden. Are there still secrets today? Even occult secrets are now all available on the internet. You can know or see or hear anything that you want to see or read or hear or know. Nothing is safe. Not even bank codes…

1. GOD’S PROMISE TO RENEW ALL THINGS. “Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.” — Isaiah 43: 19. “Then I saw a new heaven and…

- The Holy Spirit — the Giver Of Gifts Both in Sacred Scriptures and in the Sacred Traditions of the Christian Faith, the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Divine Trinity is noted as the ‘Giver of gifts’. The gifts of God, the spiritual gifts, are traditionally attributed to the Holy Spirit as its dispenser, or put in…

What we see in the history of the Church and in the lives of distinguished individual Christians, is in more ways than one, the demonstration of God’s prevailing power — the victory of a superior power in the world. Starting from that day when the Holy Spirit arrived, on the…

- God has a workshop in the world The Church can be likened to the magnum opus of God, since the Church is a creature of God. The Church is the workmanship of the master craftsman, the handicraft of the creator. Surely, the Church is a phenomenal initiative of God, in the sense that, it is a creation…

- does the demonstration of the power of the gospel now belong to the past? These days, there are increasingly, many orthodox Christians, among whom are both preachers and believers, who believe that such experience of the power of God as Jesus and the Apostle Paul described them in various verses, now belong to the past and should no longer be discussed or desired or…

- the power promised us by the Lord is a person There is no doubt that God made a promise to us — to his Christian children — to send us ‘power’. This is true, even though, for the good reasons of prudence and control, the element of ‘power’ is not emphasized in the Church, so much so that any…

1. The mission of the Holy Spirit as the ‘helper’ The thrust or essence of the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to be for us “another helper” (Jn 14:16) Generally, the ministry or function which the Holy Spirit exercises for the advantage of the Christian people, by its nature…

1. The festival of revival — the annual feast of Pentecost While it is only fair that we should acknowledge the works that have been done by individuals and institutions to give voice and visibility to the person and mission of the Holy Spirit, there remains a candid and lingering…