Foundational Teachings

When we talk about praying for healing, we also need to go back and speak about the power that enables us to pray for healing. This is the power that came upon the early church on Pentecost. Those 120 in…

And some of the things it has produced in my life. (An edited combination of two sermons by John G. Lake) The Baptism of the Holy Ghost was of such importance in the mind of the Lord Jesus Christ that…

The Baptism of the Holy Ghost is the greatest event in Christian history. Greater than the Crucifixion, of greater import than the Resurrection, greater than the Ascension, greater than the glorification. It was the end and finality of Crucifixion and Resurrection,…

As we restructure and light touch edit the tentmaker.org website, one of the series that Gary created was all about The Holy Spirit. This introduction includes elements spaced across the series that simply couldn’t be reset anywhere else. In effect,…

In the last paper we considered principally the subject, faith; in this one, we will take up works; and then, with both sides of the question in mind, we shall be the better prepared to understand some future thoughts on faith…

(Concluded from the last Paper.) This Bible view of God is not only thus personally blessed to the Christian, but it assures us of another thing. God’s plans and purposes are being carried out. Amid all the mutations of earthly…

Having read the two preceding articles some perhaps will feel inclined to ask, “has not the individual anything to do toward his own salvation? Is he altogether like clay in the potter’s hands?”  Does not the Bible tell us to “work out…

This question is so important that it is five times asked in the Bible. First in the book of Job, 7:17. “What is man that thou shouldst magnify him, and that thou shouldst set thine heart upon him?” Again in…

Do not the views set forth in the foregoing article clash with the doctrine of man’s free moral agency? Do they not make him out to be a sort of a machine without any will of his own? Before answering…

Spirit of the Word By the Spirit of the Word I mean its real and intended meaning, in contradistinction to its apparent and surface meaning, or the “letter.” It is a common mistake among Christians to suppose that the Bible is written in very plain and…

Author of Spirit of the World Periodical We commence this paper, and shall continue it, we trust, if in God’s providence it is to continue, in the name of God and for the love of the truth. We desire to…

The following article by T. Austin-Sparks contains some powerful thoughts worth passing on. While his use of the word “eternity” certainly is not scriptural, the rest of what he wrote is certainly worth gleaning from. In the twentieth century, there…

(With a few minor updates to the language by Mercy Aiken.) “And thou shalt make … five pillars, and overlay them with gold, … and shalt cast five sockets of brass for them” — Exodus 24:37. The number five has acquired…

Jacquelyn K. Heasley (JKH) has a gift of putting into one line what it takes others an entire article to say. Sometimes a handful of words planted in the heart changes a life. If one catches you, write it on…