Tag Archives: Holy Spirit

The Spirit Empowers

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November, we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. In one fell swoop, President Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the United States. After authorizing the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, it only… Read more »

The Spirit Intercedes

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. All her life, Carly Simon has battled the Beast. The Beast is her name for the all-consuming sense of Not-Good-Enoughness that has plagued her from… Read more »

The Spirit Grows Our Character

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. The Great Wall of China is one of the most remarkable feats of human engineering.  Construction began more than 2,300 years ago.  The “Great Wall”… Read more »

The Spirit Flows

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. More than a decade ago, I was one of several thousand travelers who were stranded for much of a whole day in Houston’s largest… Read more »

The Spirit Indwells

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. How many psychiatrists does it take a change a light bulb?  One, but only if the light bulb really wants to change. How many plumbers… Read more »

The Spirit Avoids the Spotlight

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. Mad Max: Fury Road has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest action films of all time. Most people associate the Mad Max franchise… Read more »

The Spirit Interprets

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. The US Navy had no business winning the Battle of Midway, the epic turning point of the Pacific theater of action in World War… Read more »

The Spirit Convicts

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. What would you do if you were stranded with a handful of other people on an uninhabited island? That question lies at the… Read more »

The Spirit Seals

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. The McDonalds recently passed the 40th anniversary of our moving from Indianapolis to the nearby town of Zionsville, Indiana.  Back in 1983, it was our… Read more »

The Spirit Dances

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the month of November we’re taking a look at 21 essential activities of the Holy Spirit, who represents God’s presence in and through every follower of Jesus. Kids ask great questions.  A young student named Emma asked her social studies teacher, Mr. Johnson, “How many lions do you think were in the… Read more »