Walking in the Spirit

In high school, I prayed to be able to speak in tongues. I thought I already had the Holy Spirit because that's what we were taught, and I never questioned it. But I knew I couldn't speak in tongues and that it was real. I'd witnessed it and I'd read about it in the Bible. I wanted that. I wanted to feel special, but more than that, I didn't want to feel like I was missing out on something. When I brought up to people who could speak in tongues that I wanted to be able to do that as well, they couldn't tell me how to have that in my life. It would take me until my first year of college, to have this ability and even then I couldn't have told you how it came about. I couldn't have told you how to have it for yourself. And I couldn't have told you, at that time, that the moment I was able to speak in tongues was when I actually received the Holy Spirit that the Bible talks about. But today.... today I can tell you how to receive the Holy Spirit. And wh...

We live in a time where many are focused on living and speaking their truth. There's this general idea that anything goes if you believe something strongly enough. But what if our personal convictions about the world don't hold up in the end? Was it still true? We can, in fact, believe something false and take our strong conviction of that false thing to the grave. Something doesn't become truth just because we believe it. Truth stands alone whether it's believed or not.  Things get even more hot-button when we look into the religious world. People take pride in how devout they are and are easily offended when told that something isn't as they were taught or if it's suggested that they do a little more research. And when every church seems to be preaching something different, it's hard to know what to believe. It's understandable that Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" (John 18:38). Sometimes the differences in doctrines seem so minor that it...