
Baptized with the Spirit
Read: Matthew 3:13-17 Thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. (v. 15) I am the kind of student who “learns by doing.” I learn best by following someone

Read: Matthew 3:13-17 Thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. (v. 15) I am the kind of student who “learns by doing.” I learn best by following someone

Read: Isaiah 11:1-9 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him. (v. 2) For more than a decade, superhero movies have dominated the film industry. I understand the appeal. I

Read: Psalm 51:7-12 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. (v. 10) When I was a child, one of my biggest fears was

Read: Ezekiel 36:22-27 I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. (v. 26) One of my favorite Christmas stories is Dr. Seuss’ classic

Read: Numbers 11:16-18, 24-25 I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. (v. 17) Though no one knows exactly where it originated, the

Read: Genesis 1:1-5; 2:7 And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (v. 2) The Holy Spirit makes his first appearance in the opening verses of

Read: 1 Corinthians 13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (v. 13) Love is the greatest and most costly Christian virtue,

Read: Hebrews 6:13-20 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul . . . Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf. (vv. 19-20) On the front lawn of

Read: Hebrews 11:1-12:2 Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (12:1) The last three virtues (faith, hope, and love) are called the theological virtues because