Sunday, September 25, 2011

words of wisdom

Spiritual articles



Author Subject
A. H. Finn The Tabernacle Chapters
Alan R. Millard In Praise of Ancient Scribes
Albert C. Outler St Augustine Confessions
Allan M. Harmon Aspects of Paul Use of the Psalms
Allen Howard The Hebrew Masal
Allen P. Ross The Curse of Canaan
Allen P. Ross The Dispersion of the Nations
Anastasius The Librarian Genuine Acts Of Peter Bishop Of Alexandria
Anis A. Shorrosh Islam Unveiled
Anson F. Rainey A Study of Eccleisates
Archibald Alexander The Canon of the Old and New Testaments
Archpresbyter Father Michael Pomazansky Apologetic Notes
Archpriest George Florovsky On Church and Tradition
Ardel Caneday Redeemed from the Curse of the Law
Arie C. Leder Reading Exodus to Learn and Learning to Read Exodus
Arie C. Leder The Coherence of Exodus
Azer Bestavros The Resurrection in Christianity.
B. Lightfoot The Didache or Teaching of the Apostles
Bishop Alexander Apologetic Sketches
Bishop Alexander Concordance of Messianic Prophesies
Bishop Alexander Didactic Books of the Old Testament
Bishop Alexander Ecumenical Epistles
Bishop Alexander Epistle to the Ephesians
Bishop Alexander Epistle to the Romans
Bishop Alexander Epistles of Apostle Paul
Bishop Alexander Following Christ
Bishop Alexander The Days of Creation
Bishop Alexander the Messiah
Bishop Alexander The Nativity of Christ
Bishop Alexander The Old Testament Regarding the messiah
Bishop Alexander The One God Worshipped in the Trinity
Bishop Alexander The Orthodox Church
Bishop Alexander The Principles of the Russian Orthodox Faith
Bishop Mettaous HOLY LITURGYIN THE COPTIC ORTHODOX
Bishop Mettaous How Can I Benefit From Confession
Bishop Mettaous HOW TO BENEFIT FROM THE HOLY LITURGY
Bishop Mettaous How to benifit from the Liturgy
Bishop Mittaous spirituality of scarmental
Bishop Moussa ADDICTION
Bishop Moussa Faith That Takes A Stand
Bishop Moussa Family and Relationships
Bishop Moussa Five Proofs Of The Divinity Of Christ
Bishop Moussa freedom
Bishop Moussa Guarantees For Pure Living
Bishop Moussa How Can I Chose My Life Partner
Bishop Moussa Keys to Youth Ministry
Bishop Moussa One Substance And Three Persons
Bishop Moussa Sacramental Rites In The Coptic Orthodox Church
Bishop Moussa The Characteristics of Acceptable Repentance
Bishop Moussa The Christian View Of Cloning
Bishop Moussa The Existence of God
Bishop Moussa The Lord Jesus Christ In The Old Testament
Bishop Moussa The Resurrection and Freedom
Bishop Moussa The Ritual Of The Raising Of Incense.
Bishop Moussa The Spirituality Of Ritual In The Coptic Church
Bishop Moussa Who is Christ
Bishop Serapion Aids
Bishop Serapion Asceticism
Bishop Serapion Brain Death
Bishop Serapion Drug Addiction
Bishop Serapion Family Planning
Bishop Serapion Great Lent
Bishop Serapion Organ Transplant
Bishop Serapion Our Fathers The 12 Apostles
Bishop Serapion TRUE Love
Bishop Youssef St. Takla Haymanot the Ethiopian
Boulos Ayad The Coptic Orthodox Church
Bruce K. Waltke Cain and His Offering
Bruce K. Waltke The Book of Proverbs and Ancient Wisdom Literature
Bruce K. Waltke The Book of Proverbs and Old Testament Theology
Bruce M. Metzger Theories of the Translation Process
James A. Aderman Adventism Its History and Doctrine
C. E. Cerling Abortion and Contraception in Scripture
Carl Armerding The Last Words of Moses
Carl F. H. HENRY The Identity of Jesus of Nazareth
Charles H. Dyer The Date of the Exodus reexamined
Charles L. Feinberg The Scapegoat of Leviticus Sixteen
Charles L. Zimmerman Chronology and Birth of Jacob’s Children
Charles Lee Feinberg The Image of God
Charles Lee The Poetic Structure of the Book of Job
Charles P. Baylis Repentance in Acts in Light of Deuteronomy 30
Charles R. Smith The Unfruitful Branches in John 15
Curtis A. Jahn Lessons from the History of the Church
D. Edmond Hiebert The Unifying Theme of the Epistle of James
Daniel B. Wallace The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text
Daniel P. Bricker The Innocent Sufferer in the Book of Proverbs
David A. Desilva The Social Setting of the Revelation to John
David Alan Black The Peculiarities of Ephesians and the Ephesian Address
David Alan Weakness Language in Galatians
David Burdett Wisdom Literature and the Promise Doctrine
David E. Lanier The Lord’s Prayer
David J. Macleod The Doctrinal Center of the Book of Hebrews
David J. Macleod The Literary Structrue of the Book of Hebrews
David R. Dilling The Atonement and Human Sacrifice
David R. Plaster The Christian and War
David S. Dockery Pauline Tension in the Christian Life
David S. Dockery The Theology of Acts
Davis A. Young Scripture in the Hands of Geologists
Deacon Nabih Fanous Dr. Zakaria Wahba Coptic Hymns
Deacon Severus S.A. Mikhail The Mystery of God’s Providence
Dean Anderson The Division and Order of the Psalms
Don C. Hewey Evidence of MS on Johaninne Comma
Donald A. Leggett The Levirate and Goel Institutions in the Old Testament
Dr. Ragheb Moftah Habashy Coptic Music Value & Origins
Dr. Zakaria Wahba Coptic Icons
Edgar J. Lovelady Infinitive Clause Syntax in the Gospels
Edgar J. Lovelady The Logos Concept
Edward J. Young Scripture God-Breathed and Profitable
Edward J. Young What is God-Breathed Scripture
Edward M. Curtis Old Testament Wisdom
Edwin Lehmann The Absolution in the Theology and Practice of the Reformation
Elaine Phillips The Nature and Authority of Scripture
Elaine Phillips Theology Primer for the First Testament
Elmer B. Smick Mythopoetic Language in the Psalms
Elmer B. Smick Semeilogical Interpretation of the Book of Job
Ernest De Witt BURTON Syntax of Moods and Tenses in New Testament
Erwin Scharf The Holy Ghost, His Person and His Work
F. Bruce The Colossian Heresy
F. C. Burkitt The Hebrew Papyrus of the Ten Commandments
F. F. Bruce Jews and Christians in the Lycus Valley
Father Antonious Henein What The Fathers Have To Say About Fasting
Father Bishoy Kamel Kiahk Praises
Father Joseph Boules Do You Have An Attitude
Father Markos Hanna Tattooing and Body Piercing
Father Matta El-Meskeen The Coptic Calendar
Father Michael Azkoul How Does Orthodoxy Differ From Roman Catholicism
Father Tadros Y. Malaty The Coptic Calendar And The Church Of Alexandria
Father Tadros Y. Malaty Tradition And Orthodoxy
Fr. Alexey Young Mormonism
Fr. Deacon Andrey Kuraev Orthodoxy and Creationism
Fr. Dmitri Ross On the Trail of the Seven Coptic Monks in Ireland
Fr. Dmitri Ross The Apostles in Britain
Fr. Dmitri Ross The Eastern Church
Fr. George Florovsky Incarnation and Redemption
Fr. Georges Florovsky The Gospel of Resurrection
Fr. Marcos Marcos About the Coptic Orthodox Church
Fr. Samaan El Souriany The Hermit Fathers
Fr. Stephen Fraser Depression According to the Fathers
Fr. Tadros Y. Malaty Anba abram
Frederic E. Blume The Old Gospel for a New Age
Frederic Gardiner The Relation of Ezekiel to the Levitical Law
Gale Z. Heide The Soteriology of James
George C. Fuller The Life of Jesus, After the Ascension
George E. Ladd The Kingdom of God in 1 Enoch
George Florovsky Tradition of the Fathers
George J. Cline The Middle Voice in the New Testament
Gerald Hoenecke The Role of Apologetics and Polemics in the Pulpit
Gerald L. Mattingly The Exodus-Conquest and the Archaeology of Transjordan
Gilbert B. Weaver The Doctrine of Revelation and Inspiration in the Old Testament
Gilbert K. Chesterton Orthodoxy
Gordon College Outline History of the Neo-Assyrian Period
Gordon Henry Lovik Expressing Time in the Gospels
Gregory W. Parsons Literary Features of the Book of Job
Gregory W. Parsons The Structure and Purpose of the Book of Job
Harold E. Warnke Catechetical Resources
Harold E. Warnke The Catechism
Harold Mare Teacher and Rabbi in the New Testament Period
Heinrich Vogel The Angel of the LORD
Herbert W. Bateman Were the Opponents at Philippi Necessarily Jewish
Homer A. Kent How We Got Our New Testament
Homer A. Kent The Glory of Christian Ministry
Howard Marshall The Messiah in the First Century
Hudson Taylor Union and Communion by J H Taylor
Inas Michael The Role Of Women In The Church
J. Daniel Hays Applying the Old Testament Law
J. Robert Vannoy Covenant Renewal at Gilgal
J.B. Lightfoot The letter of the Smyrnaeans or the Martyrdom of Polycarp
Jack Barentsen The Validity of Human Language
James A. Brooks The Unity and Structure of the Sermon on the Mount
James E. Rosscup The Overcomer of the Apocalypse
James F. Korthals The Twelve , A Study of the Apostles
James H. Fraser The Authenticity of the Psalm Titles
James L. Boyer Anonymous Conditional Elements in New Testament Greek
James L. Boyer Conditions in New Testament Greek
James L. Boyer Noun Clauses in the Greek New Testament
James L. Boyer Relative Clauses in the Greek New Testament
James Parker The Incarnational Christology of John
James S. Reitman The Structure and Unity of Ecclesiastes
Jean Danielou The Dead Sea Scrolls and Primitive Christianity
Jeong Woo Introduction to the Ten Commandments
John A. Battle Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans
John C. Jeske The Ministry of Angels
John F. Brug The Spiritual Body
John H. Sailhamer The Mosaic Law and the Theology of the Pentateuch
John H. Stek The Stylistics of Hebrew Poetry
John J. Davis The Rhetorical Use of Numbers in the Old Testament
John Mcray Archaeology and the Book of Acts
John N. Day The Imprecatory Psalms and Christian Ethics
John Rea The Time of the Oppression and the Exodus
Larry J. Waters Reflections on Suffering from the Book of Job
Larry L. Walker Some Results and Reversals of the Higher Criticism of the Old Testament
Leon Morris The Atonement in John’s Gospel
Lewis Bayles Paton The Holiness-Code and Ezekiel
Louis Bouyer The Church Of God
M. M. Kalisch The Prophecies of Balaam
Mark A. Snoeberger The Pre-Mosaic Tithe
Mark Harding Church and Gentile Cults at Corinth
Mark Saucy The Kingdom-Of-God Sayings in Matthew
Martin H. Franzmann Scripture and Interpretation
Matt Slick The Didache
Mena Rizkalla Fear of God
Meredith G. Kline The Two Tables of the Covenant
Merland Ray Miller Seven Theological Themes in Hebrews
Merrill C. Tenney The Imagery of John
Merrill C. Tenney The Meaning of the Signs
Merrill C. Tenney The Meaning of Witness in John
Merrill C. Tenney The Old Testament and the Fourth Gospel
Merrill C. Tenney The Person of the Father
Merrill C. Tenney The Symphonic Structure of John
Merrill F. Unger The Significance of the Sabbath
Metropolitan Bishoy Saint Severus of Antioch - His Life and Christology
Metropolitan Bishoy The Christology of Saint Cyril
Metropolitan Bishoy Theodore of Mopsuestia
Metropolitan Pishoy Did Judas Partake of Holy Communion
Michael A. Grisanti The Abortion Dilemma
Michael J. Borgwardt The Apostle Paul as Apologist
Michael Pomazansky Liturgical Books From Manuscript to Print
Michael R. Riley The Proper Translation of Aner and Gyne in the New Testament
Michael S. Moore The Cultural Gyroscope of Ancient Hebrew Society
Moises Silva Approaching the Fourth Gospel
Origen Commentary on Gospel of St. John
Paul H. Seely The Date of the Tower of Babel
Paul H. Seely The Geographical Meaning of ‘Earth’ and ‘Seas’ in Genesis 1
Paul J. Ray The Duration of the Israelite Sojourn in Egypt
Paul Rotenberry Blessing in the Old Testament
Paul Samaan Introduction to the History of Coptic Monasticism
Paul Watson The Tree of Life
Pope Shenouda CONTEMPLATIONS ON THE RESURRECTION POPE
Pope Shenouda Do Not Fear Satan
Pope Shenouda God's Children Are Strong
Pope Shenouda Homosexuality And The Church
Pope Shenouda How To Relate To Children
Pope Shenouda Monasticism
Pope Shenouda Questions about Nativity
Pope Shenouda Repentance
Pope Shenouda The Feasts of the Cross
Pope Shenouda The Holy Spirit in the Church of the Apostles
Pope Shenouda The Joy of the Resurrection
Pope Shenouda The Nature Of Christ
Preston L. Mayes Cities of Refuge
Prof. Aziz Surial The Coptic Contribution to Christian Civilization
Protopresbyter Michael Pomazansky The OT In The NT
R. Laird Harris The Book of Job and Its Doctrine of God
Rev. James Alberione EXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE
Richard M. Davidson The Theology of Sexuality in the Beginning
Richard M. Davidson Theology of Sexuality in the Song of Songs
Richard M. Davidson Understanding Luke’s Taks
Richard Wells The Theology of Prayer in James
Robert B. Sloan The Christology of James
Robert C. Newman The Ancient Exegesis of Genesis
Robert C. Newman The Council of Jamnia and the Old Testament Canon
Robert C. Swift The Theme and Structure of Philppians
Robert Helm Azazel in Early Jewish Tradition
Roy Metts Romans 11 and the Future of Ethnic Israel
Saint Cyprian The Lord's Prayer
Saint Cyril Of Alexandria How The Lord Choose His Twelve Apostles
Samir Mikhail The Egyptian Church Through The Ages
Scott J. Stone The Nature of Hell in Modern Christian Theology
Clement Second Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
Siegbert W. Becker State of the Soul After Death
Siegbert W. Becker The Doctrine of Confession and Absolution
Simon J. Kistemaker The Speeches in Acts
Anonymous St. Anthony the Great
Anonymous St. Apanoub
Anonymous St. George
Anonymous St. Jerome THE LIFE OF PAULUS THE FIRST HERMIT
Anonymous St. Mercurius
Anonymous St. Mina
Anonymous St. Peter, the Seal of the Martyrs
Anonymous St. Sarapamon
Stanley C. Stein Theological and Practical Aspects of the Tetragrammaton
Stanley D. Toussaint The Eschatology of the Warning Passages in the Book of Hebrews
Stephen Westerholm The Law in the Sermon on the Mount
Anonymous Synaxarium Archangel Michael
Ted Hildebrandt Genesis Difficult Questions
Anonymous The Greek New Testament According to the Majority Text
Anonymous The Hebrew Masal
Anonymous The Hebrew Papyrus of the Ten Commandments
Anonymous The life of St. George
Theodore C. Foote The Ephod
Theophile James The Sabbath in the Old Testament
Timothy J. Cole Enoch, a Man Who Walked with God
Anonymous Dictionary of Orthodox Terminology
Anonymous Different expressions of theology
Victor Rhee Chiasm and the Concept of Faith in Hebrews
Walt Russell The Holy Spirit’s Ministry in the Fourth Gospel
Walt Russell Who Were Paul’s Opponents in Galatia
Walter Brueggemann An Inductive Study of Selah
Walter C. Kaiser The Promise of the Arrival of Elijah in Malachi and the Gospels
Wayne A. Brindle The Origin and History of the Samaritans
Wayne House The Doctrine of Christ in Colossians
Weston W. Fields Early and Medieval Jewish Interpetation of the Song of Songs
Weston W. Fields Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus
Wilfried Warning Terminological Patterns and Genesis
William E. Elliott Conditional Sentences in the New Testament
William F. Beck What Does Almah Mean
William F. Schink The Scriptural Doctrine of the Antichrist
William Henry Green General Introduction to the Old Testament
William Henry The Unity of the Book of Genesis
William R. Eichhorst The Gospel Miracles Their Nature and Apologetic Value
William R. Farmer Peter and Paul
William W. Combs Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism and the New Testament Interpretation
William Webster The Old Testament Canon and the Apocrypha
Willis Judson The Prophets and the Promise
Anonymous A History of Christianity in Egypt
Anonymous Anba Abraam
Anonymous Antichrist And The Second Advent
Anonymous Armenian Orthodox Church
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Pentecost - The Birthday of the Church

"Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God "Father" and to share in Christ's grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory." - St. Basil, De Spiritu Sancto

Holy Spirit

The third person of the Holy Trinity, who is distinct from the Father and the Son but one in being, coequal, and coeternal with them, because, like them, he is in the fullest sense God. He is also called the Spirit of Truth, the Creator Spirit, the Sanctifier, as the gifts of revelation, of creation (and re-creation), and of sanctification are the outpourings of God's love, and therefore appropriated to the Spirit of Love, though whatever God does outside the Trinity (in the world of creatures) belongs to the common or united action of the three divine persons. Holy Spirit is usually represented artistically as a Dove, because it was in this form that he descended visibly upon Christ in the Jordan (Mark 1:10).

Introduction to Holy Spirit

God is only One, but He has revealed Himself very distinctly as three persons, so that we mere creatures can come to a better understanding of Him, however we are unworthy to know God completely and He remains the greatest mystery of our faith.

Who is the Holy Spirit?

The Holy Spirit is a fire of Divine Love that comes to touch us and refine us in an ardent desire to possess God. It gives us a passion for God, it destroys all the earthly affections because it opens our spiritual eyes to see how precious God is.

Promises of the Holy Spirit in Old Testament

God saw our need to have His Holy Spirit, otherwise we would be doomed. For this reason He made a promise in the Old Testament which was fulfilled with the coming of Christ, He spoke through different prophets.

The Holy Spirit in the New Testament

We are temples of the Holy Spirit and to be filled with the Spirit of God we must cleanse our temples with the waters of repentance through baptism. However we are supposed to stop sinning in order to receive the fire of the Holy Spirit. So this promise of God is conditional to our repentance.

What the Holy Spirit Really Looks Like
by David Lose


Have you ever seen the Holy Spirit? (No, that's not a trick question.) Seriously, then: have you seen the Spirit? No, of course not. The best we get in the Bible are descriptions of tongues of flame (Acts 2) or a freely blowing breeze (John 3). I think that's what makes preaching on – or for that matter even talking about – the Holy Spirit so difficult. We don't know what the Spirit looks like.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit

The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord.

Gifts of The Holy Spirit

The Bible contains five major lists of gifts given by the Holy Spirit. All the gifts of Holy Spirit given in both books of the Bible are compiled in this article.

The Personality of the Holy Ghost
by the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon


I invite your attention to this passage (John 14:16-17) because we shall find in it some instruction on four points: first, concerning the true and proper personality of the Holy Ghost; secondly, concerning the united agency of the glorious Three Persons in the work of our salvation; thirdly we shall find something to establish the doctrine of the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the souls of all believers; and fourthly, we shall find out the reason why the carnal mind rejects the Holy Ghost.

Sins Against the Holy Spirit
by John Chrysostomos


Many things have ye spoken against me. These things I forgive you on your repentance, and exact no penalty of you; but blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven, no, not to those who repent. And how can this be right? For even this was forgiven upon repentance. Many at least of those who said these words believed afterward, and all was forgiven them.

Sins Against the Holy Spirit
by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, OP


The sins against the Holy Ghost are commonly said to be six in number: despair, presumption, impenitence, obstinacy, resisting truth, and envy of another's spiritual welfare. Some of these are less difficult of pardon than others. Final impenitence is absolutely unpardonable. Those, too, who from deliberate malice refuse to recognize the work of God, as the Pharisees did when they saw the miracles of Our Lord and attributed them to Beelzebub, the Prince of Devils are unpardonable.

More on the Sins Against the Holy Spirit

In reflecting at length why certain sins against holy spirit are unforgiveable, several things have come to mind regarding each one of the 6 sins: despair, presumption, impenitence, obstinacy, resisting truth, and envy of another's spiritual welfare. They all have one thing in common: We judge ourselves, taking the supreme authority from God. When we commit one of these grievous sins, we refuse God's love and forgiveness. These sins are all made by our own choosing to commit them. They are all intentional.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Prayer to The Holy Spirit
by St. Antiochus


Veni, Creator (hymn)
Invocation of Holy Spirit


A Pentecost Meditation
by Father Mark


The Order of Pentecosty Feast
(includes all 3 Kneelings, English) (Syrian Orthodox)


Questions and Answers on the Holy Spirit

Pentecost, the Birthday of the Church: A Scriptural Reflection on the Solemnity of Pentecost
by Carl E. Olson


For Christians, Pentecost is the celebration of a formative event in the history of the early Church—the pouring out of the Holy Spirit upon the newly birthed Church and the first bold proclamation of the Gospel by Peter, the head apostle, among the Jews. The gift of the Spirit ushers in a new era in the ‘dispensation of the mystery’ the age of the Church, during which Christ manifests, makes present, and communicates his work of salvation through the liturgy of his Church, ‘until he comes.’

Pentecost Paradoxes
by David Lose

What would you say if I suggested that we regularly misinterpret Pentecost? Actually, not just misinterpret it a little, but generally get Pentecost completely backwards. Intrigued? Curious? Offended? Read on.

What is the relevance of Pentecost in our Church?
by Fr. Saji K. Mathew

When we think about Holy Spirit the two factors which rush to our mind are Love (agape) and Cooperation (Selfless Unity with identity intact). Both these things are found in perfection in the Holy Trinity. Holy Trinity is the model and source of encouragement for humanity in the contemporary world. We should derive energy to grow in spirit from that divine source.

Preaching a Present-Tense Pentecost
by David Lose

Few holidays present themselves as ripe for nostalgia as Pentecost. After all, weren't these the glory days of the church – spirit-filled preaching; attentive, even miraculous listening; three thousand converted in a single day? Exactly. And what have most of us seen or done since that could possibly compare?

Sermon for Pentecost Sunday
by St Leo the Great

The Majesty of the Holy Ghost is never separate from the Omnipotence of the Father and the Son, and whatever the Divine government accomplishes in the ordering of all things, proceeds from the Providence of the whole Trinity. Therein exists unity of mercy and loving-kindness, unity of judgment and justice: nor is there any division in action where there is no divergence of will. What, therefore, the Father enlightens, the Son enlightens, and the Holy Ghost enlightens: and while there is one Person of the Sent, another of the Sender, and another of the Promiser, both the Unity and the Trinity are at the same time revealed to us, so that the Essence which possesses equality and does not admit of solitariness is understood to belong to the same Substance but not the same Person.

Pentecost: the Holy Spirit Comes
by Victor Hoagland, C.P.

The Holy Spirit is Jesus’ “first gift to those who believe, to complete his work on earth, and bring us the fullness of grace.” Just as
the Father sent him, his disciples are to go into the world to renew the face of the earth. With different gifts, they form one body. Performing different works, they are members of the body of Christ, the church.

A Sermon for Pentecost
By Dr. Robert Crouse

Wind and fire: ancient symbols of divine power and presence - The Breath of God, moving over the waters of chaos, producing the forms of life; breathing into lifeless clay, bringing forth a living soul; the breath of God in the Valley of Dry Bones, making those dry bones live. The fire of God: the refining and consuming fire of God's wrath and God's love. "A rushing mighty wind...and cloven tongues, like as of fire" - these are the mystical symbols of God's coming in power.

Pentecost Sermon: The Counselor
by Edward F. Markquart

John, chapters 14-16, is the high water mark in the Bible about the Holy Spirit. If you want to find out about the Holy Spirit, you can read the book of Acts, but an even better place to read about the Spirit is John 14-16.

Why the Kneeling down and Sprinkling of water on the Feast of Pentecost in Syrian Orthodox Church?
by Rev. Fr. George Pulikkottil


As it is very clear in the message of Christ, repentance is the only way to attain the Kingdom of God. Receiving the renewal of Holy Spirit is the sign and expression of becoming a member in the Kingdom of God. In Eastern Church kneeling down and crying Kurielaison is the most genuine and powerful expression of real repentance. There is no other way to invocate the Holy Spirit than our real repentance and confession.

You are the Light of the World
by Edward F. Markquart

Your Christianity is to be visible. Your Christianity is to be seen, is to be noticed, is not to be hid. People are to know you are a Christian by what you say, by what you do, by who you are. If you are a Christian, you cannot hide it. It is the very nature of discipleship to be seen.

Reflections on Holy Spirit by Church Fathers and Others

The Holy Spirit, Gift of God's Love
by St. Augustine


There is no gift of God more excellent than this (love). It alone distinguishes the sons of the eternal kingdom and the sons of eternal perdition. Other gifts, too, are given by the Holy Spirit; but without love they profit nothing. Unless, therefore, the Holy Spirit is so far imparted to each, as to make him one who loves God and his neighbor, he is not removed from the left hand to the right. Nor is the Spirit specially called the Gift, unless on account of love.

The Holy Spirit, River of Grace
by St. Ambrose of Milan


The Holy Spirit is the River, and the abundant River, which according to the Hebrews flowed from Jesus in the lands, as we have received it prophesied by the mouth of Isaiah. This is the great River which flows always and never fails. And not only a river, but also one of copious stream and overflowing greatness, as also David said: "The stream of the river makes glad the city of God." For neither is that city, the heavenly Jerusalem, watered by the channel of any earthly river, but that Holy Spirit, proceeding from the Fount of Life, by a short draught of Whom we are satiated, seems to flow more abundantly among those celestial Thrones, .., rushing in the full course of the seven virtues of the Spirit.

The Holy Spirit, Purifier
by St. Basil the Great


Through His (Holy Spirit) aid hearts are lifted up, the weak are held by the hand, and they who are advancing are brought to perfection. Shining upon those that are cleansed from every spot, He makes them spiritual by fellowship with Himself. Just as when a sunbeam falls on bright and transparent bodies, they themselves become brilliant too, and shed forth a fresh brightness from themselves, so souls wherein the Spirit dwells, illuminated by the Spirit, themselves become spiritual, and send forth their grace to others.

The Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles
by Dom Columba Marmion, O.S.B. Abbot of Maredsous


The Holy Spirit appeared under the form of tongues of fire in order to fill the Apostles with truth and to prepare them to bear witness to Jesus. He also come to fill their hearts with love. He is the Person of Love in the life of God. He is also like a breath, an aspiration of infinite Love, from which we draw the breath of life. On the day of Pentecost the Divine Spirit communicated such an abundance of life to the whole Church that to symbolize it "there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they (the Apostles) were sitting."

Holy Spirit Shares the Love of Father and Son
by Pope John Paul II


It can be said that in the Holy Spirit the intimate life of the Triune God becomes totally gift, an exchange of mutual love between the divine Persons, and that through the Holy Spirit God exists in the mode of gift. It is the Holy Spirit who is the personal expression of this self-giving, of this being-love. He is Person-Love. He is Person-Gift. Here we have an inexhaustible treasure of the reality and an inexpressible deepening of the concept of person in God, which only divine Revelation makes known to us.

Holy Spirit, The Gift of the Father and Son
by Pope Leo XIII, 1897


We ought to pray to and invoke the Holy Spirit, for each one of us greatly needs His protection and His help. The more a man is deficient in wisdom, weak in strength, borne down with trouble, prone to sin, so ought he the more to fly to Him who is the never-ceasing fount of light, strength, consolation, and holiness. And chiefly that first requisite of man, the forgiveness of sins, must be sought for from Him: "It is the special character of the Holy Ghost that He is the Gift of the Father and the Son. Now the remission of all sins is given by the Holy Ghost as by the Gift of God. "

Selected Sermons

Pentecost: Feast of the New Covenant
by Pope Benedict XVI


The Holy Spirit "illuminates the human spirit and, by revealing Christ Crucified and Risen, indicates the way to become more like him,... to be 'the image and instrument of the love which flows from Christ'"... The images used by St. Luke to indicate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit — wind and fire — recall Sinai, where God revealed himself to the people of Israel and offered his covenant (cf. Ex 19:3ff.). The feast of Sinai, which Israel celebrated 50 days after the Passover, was the feast of the Covenant.

Pentecost Homily
by Pope John Paul II


The Holy Spirit gave the Apostles "the necessary light and strength to teach the nations and to proclaim Christ's Gospel to them all. In this way the Church was born and lives in the fruitful tension between the Upper Room and the world, between prayer and proclamation"...The witness of the Spirit is divine in itself: it comes from the depth of the Trinitarian mystery. The Apostles' witness is human: It transmits, in the light of revelation, their experience of life with Jesus. In laying the foundations of the Church, Christ attaches great importance to the human witness of the Apostles.

Devotional Thoughts for Pentecost Sunday
by Rev. Dr. V KurianThomas Valiyaparambil


Christian churches see Pentecost as the final fulfillment of the mission of Jesus. It is traditionally called the beginning of the Holy Apostolic Church. It reveals the identities of the divine trinity, namely, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...Pentecost is a great harvest of the Holy Spirit to empower and renew our life to be a witness for Christ. Our faith in God cannot live on man's wisdom alone. We need the experience of the Holy Spirit to sustain our faith and empower us to be the disciple of Christ.

A Model Relationship
by HG Yuhanon Mor Meletius


Taking all the four readings (prescribed for Pentecost) together, a theme is presented before the congregation by the Church. It can be put in one word, ‘relationship’; relationship between God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and with life of humans in relationship. From the kind of relationship exists between the Holy Trinity, Jesus derives a model for the human relationship. This is a unique kind of methodology. We humans derive models for our life in this world from Godhead and the relationship that exists within Godhead. Christian faith in the Holy Trinity is not just a talk about some philosophical theory, rather it is the talk about a model, inspiration and guide for our lives in this world.

Sermon for the Day of Pentecost
by Charles Henrickson


Pentecost, or the Feast of Weeks, was one of the three great pilgrimage festivals in the Hebrew calendar. The first was Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, in the early spring, commemorating the Lord bringing the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt. The second great festival of the year, then, was Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, in mid-to-late spring, celebrating the Lord bringing them into the Promised Land, settling them in that good land flowing with milk and honey. The third great festival occurred in the fall, the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths, commemorating how the Lord provided for the Israelites on their journey to the Promised Land.

Sermon for Pentecost Sunday
by Martin Luther


The historical facts of this day, as well as the beautiful sermon the Holy Spirit delivered through the apostle Peter, which might appropriately be fully treated at this time, we shall leave for the special sermons on the various festivals of the year. For the present we will but briefly speak of the occasion of this festival, and of the office of the Holy Spirit.

Sermons and Bible Commentaries/Bible Studies for Pentecost

A Trinitarian Pentecost
by The Rev. Charles Henrickson


The Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. The exalted Son receives from the Father the promised Holy Spirit, and then he bestows the Spirit upon his church. That’s what happened at Pentecost, and it continues to this day. Jesus gives the Spirit to his church to empower her preaching of the gospel, bringing salvation to untold millions of people around the world, from the day of Pentecost up until this day, and till the day of Christ’s return. The Holy Trinity is doing something, actively rescuing sinners, giving us salvation, by bringing us the saving gospel. You yourself are among those recipients. By faith we receive the good news, in joy. By the Spirit’s working we believe in our Savior Jesus and so share in his victory. And by that same faith we now have and now a loving heavenly Father. It’s all good!

Pentecost Sunday
St. John's Orthodox Church


On this day, the fiftieth after Easter, we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost when the fullness of the Holy Trinity was revealed through the coming of the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit... Today faithful Orthodox Christians, members of the Church, of all ages and all over the world and of all nationalities and languages, celebrate the Feast of Pentecost together. Today we concelebrate the Feast with the Apostles and the Fathers, the Martyrs and the Confessors, of all ages, of ages past and of the present age and of the age to come. For we confess the same Orthodox Faith of the Holy Spirit, 'Who proceeds from the Father and rests on the Son', for we confess the same Orthodox Faith of the Holy Spirit, Who brings Wisdom and Unity wherever there is humility and purity of heart.

Devotional thoughts for The Feast of Pentecost
by Rev. Fr. Dr. VC Jose Chemmanam


On the day of pentecost, the Holy Spirit descended upon each of them in the form of Wind, Fire and Tongues. That is, the Holy spirit is compared to these three symbols: Let us meditate on these 3 symbols. The Holy Spirit descended in the form of Wind or Air. The Holy Spirit descended upon them in the form of Fire. The Disciples received the Holy Spirit in the form of Tongue. Without the Grace of the Holy Spirit there is no salvation, no true Christianity. The gift of the Holy Spirit is imperative in the life of Christians. Every Holy Qurbana becomes a pentecost - through the descent of the Holy Spirit on the faithful and the gifts (bread & wine) transforming them into the body of Christ.

Devotional thoughts for Meditation on Pentecost Sunday
by Rev. Fr. Alexander J. Kurien


This Sunday is that blessed Pentecost Sunday, 'the birthday of the Church'. Pentecost is a Greek word meaning '50', so we celebrate Pentecost 50 days after the resurrection of Jesus. Forty days he taught and encouraged his followers, then after his Ascension, they waited another ten days for his gift of the Holy Spirit. In ancient Israel, Pentecost was the celebration of the wheat harvest, 50 days after the slaying of the Passover lamb. Since biblical times, the Jewish celebration ('Shavuot') also commemorates the day the Ten Commandments were revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Devotional Thoughts for the Sunday of Pentecost
by Rev. Fr. Dr. George Pulikkottil


The event of Pentecost is the link between Gospel and other part of the New Testament. It shows that the Church is the Church of Triune God; continuation of Creation, redemption in Christ and growing in Spirit. Why the liturgy of this Feast is like what a demonstration of the Holy Trinity, why there are three parts for the order of Service of the Feast of Pentecost? We worship the Triune God – The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Each of our prayers starts and ends in the name of Triune God. No doubt, we believe in One True God - "The Father who by His grace created the world, the Son who by His precious suffering redeemed the world and the Holy and Living Spirit who fulfills and perfects all that has been and all that will be."

Jesus as the Model of Love
by William Loader, Murdoch University, Australia


Abiding in Jesus: Joy, Faith and Discipleship
by Susan Hedahl


Exegetical Notes of John 15:1-8
by Brian P. Stoffregen, Faith Lutheran Church, Marysville, CA


Vine as a Symbol of Salvation
by William Loader, Murdoch University, Australia


Devotional Thoughts for the Feast of Pentecost
by Rev. Fr. Sam Mathew Kavumkal


Devotional Thoughts for Pentecost Sunday
by Jose Kurian Puliyeril

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