A New Creature. . . an Apostolic Pentecostal blog

​ Genesis 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. . . The sun rules and indeed defines the boundary between day and night. The Son is the source of all good and true spiritual light. . .but we as the lesser lights, which reside in the land of darkness, have no light of our own making . . We shine solely with reflected light of the Son. No metaphor is perfect and indeed this one breaks down in that the moon eternally reflects the light of the sun, without ever being changed by it and we must be changed or we are not truly followers of Christ. . . 2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. We do not . . . We must not merely reflect the light of the Lord, but with open face. . .standing unveiled. . .to our deepest depths revealed, are changed from merely reflecting the li...

About 9:30 p.m. January 19th, 1990, 22 years ago today, Jackie and I met at a singles dance at the South Bend Elks club. Neither of us had been there before that evening. I asked Jackie to dance. We talked as we danced. It turned out that we had attended the same grade school and had even been in the same grade school class some 25 years or so before. After the dance, we went for a walk at the East Race on a cold and snowy evening similar to today. After our walk, we went to Denny’s for hot chocolates before I dropped Jackie off at her house sometime well after midnight. Unknown to me until a long time later, Jackie called her mom that night and began planning our wedding. . . I had always had the thought that I would die when I was 35. I don’t know why, but that had been in my mind for many years before 1990. . . in the physical I obviously did not expire that year. . . but that snowy January evening, meeting and later marrying a woman with a strongly held Christian faith, num...

Revelations 3:14-22 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;  (15)  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  (16)  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.  (17)  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:  (18)  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.  (19)  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  (20)  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my ...

Exodus 14:21-22 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. (22) And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.  Over the years, I’ve read of many explanations of different occurrences in the Bible, created in order to demonstrate how Biblical evens could have occurred without actually being miracles. I don’t know if the authors of such articles are Christians with doubts attempting to bolster up their own trembling faith, or if they are non-believers trying to boldfacedly destroy Scripture. . . in my mind the both paths are equal in their end result. What ever rationale or logic or name you might put upon it, God’s word is either entirely Spirit inspired and infallible or it might as well be totally a construction of myths and fol...

Genesis 1:1-2 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. (2) And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.   To begin a new year, with a new beginning in reading my Bible. . . I have never understood this passage. . . and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. . . Many questions come to my mind.  Why does the Spirit of God move upon the face of the waters? Why would the Spirit of God be doing this? What purpose was there for Him to be acting this way? How does the Spirit of God move at all? God is omnipresent. He is everywhere. How does an entity which is everywhere move? To move, one changes location from where you are, to where you are not. If you are already everywhere, how do you move?  But tonight I looked up the Hebrew word translated here as ‘moved’. From Gesenius’s Hebrew lexicon: To be soft. . . to be moved, to be affected. . ....