by Claude Stauffer | Apr 22, 2025 | Baptism with the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, Spiritual Gifts
“. . . but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” – Acts 1:5 Billy Graham once said, “We are the Bibles the world is reading; we are the Creeds the world is needing; we are the Sermons the world is heeding.” A pithy...
by Claude Stauffer | Jun 11, 2024 | Holy Spirit, Life in the Spirit, No Condemnation
“There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.” – Romans 8:1 In Romans 7 and 8 there are contrasts. In Romans 7 there is a struggle with sin within due to...
by Claude Stauffer | Feb 16, 2024 | Circumcision of the Heart, Holiness, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, Sanctification
“. . . and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” – Romans 2:29 Are you living an up and down unstable Christian life? Do you feel pulled in two different directions when it...
by Claude Stauffer | Feb 6, 2024 | God's Word, Holy Living, Holy Spirit, Laziness
Whatever in the water does not have fins or scales – that shall be an abomination to you. – Leviticus 11:12 Where I live on Tuesdays at a local Seafood restaurant during the summer you can get a one and a quarter pound lobster for around twenty bucks. That’s a...
by Claude Stauffer | Dec 19, 2023 | Christmas, Gift, Holy Living, Holy Spirit
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! – Luke 11:13 There are few things sadder than an unopened gift left under the Christmas Tree after Christmas....
by Claude Stauffer | Nov 28, 2023 | God is With You, Holy Spirit, Signs, Signs of the Spirit
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. – Acts 28:3 Sometimes the journey we have in the Spirit involves shipwrecks. There are times when we go through threatening...
