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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    (11) My next experience of "the word of knowledge" happened when I was a Theology professor at a Catholic university in New York state. I had just finished my 4-course teaching load and was exhausted. So I began to think about a much needed vacation. But that Friday night I became obsessed with...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    (10) This next encounter with "the word of knowledge" is probably my 2nd most treasured spiritual highlight in my life. I had applied to Harvard's doctoral program in New Testament, Judaism, and Greco-Roman backgrounds, but my a fellow seminarian told me I'd be rejected just like he was. So...
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    Sacred Fire!

    In the Azusa Street Revivlal of 1908-1911, the fire department wqs called because people saw the flames of the Holy Spirit raging on gthe upper level.
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    (9) As described in my last post, a few decades ago my car broke down in the evening during rush hour on a New Jersey freeway and was totaled after I dodged speeding traffic to get off the freeway. I called my friend Peter from Princeton Seminary, where I was a student at the time, and it was...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    (8) My next experience of the "word of knowledge" was unequivocally helpful. As part of Princeton's field education, I worked as a chaplain assistant at the Newark College of Engineering. The night prior to my drive to Newark, I had a nightmare, a premonitory dream in which I knew my life would...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    Yes, Rachel, I realized that parallel many years later. in Hebrew Moses' radiant face is called the Shekinah glory of God." I didn't mention it here because it sounded pretentious and because, at the time, my faith was in jeopardy. I'm a natural skeptic. And I'm, afraid I'd no longer be...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    But “the word of knowledge” is a spiritual gift that can be part of a learning curve and its application is not always easy to grasp. Consider these 2 examples. 2 CHRISTMAS PREMONITIONS But recognizing and properly reacting to the unexpected exercise of "the word of knowledge" can put the...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    (4) THE SPIRITUAL HIGHLIGHT OF MY LIFE: MY SPIRIT BAPTISM At age 16 I was so nagged by doubts about the reliability of Scripture and the authenticity of charismatic manifestations in church that my faith crisis prompted me to spend a week at Manhattan Beach Camp near Ninette, Manitoba with the...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    TOUCHED BY GOD IN 2 EARLY CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES (2) By the time I was 6 I had learned to hate church. There was no children's church or Sunday school for my age and Church bored me because I couldn't relate to much of the 1 1/2 hour services, especially the sermons. So I squirmed and protested...
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    My Spiritual Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Supernatural Experiences

    (1) I was born and raised in the first Pentecostal church in Canada. I was born with congenital glaucoma in my right eye. My distraught parents were impressed by a famous faith healer named William Branham, who held healing crusades around North America. What set him apart was his clairvoyance...
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    According to Catholicism, what must one believe and do to be saved?

    Catholics note how Evangelicals pervert God's Word by arbitrarily liimiting the applicationnof James 5:16 to interpsonal offenses. And they fail to recognize the value of ensuring confidentiality and privacy through confession to a priest. Nor do evangelicals honor the authority Jesus gave...
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    According to Catholicism, what must one believe and do to be saved?

    Catholics believe in salvation by grace through faith in Christ's finished atonement on the cross. But unlike many evangelicals, s\ t;hey take seriously God's command to confess our sins to each other, not just to God. (James 5:16). Confessions to a priest is needed to ensure confidentiality...
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    How long does Purgatory last?

    For an engrosing allegorical western movie on Purgatory, watch "Purgatory" here: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=purgatory+movie+youtube&mid=1EBD80E085C7986D26991EBD80E085C7986D2699&mcid=C7D4E3D5C08B4E5CB6011AB685799464&FORM=VIRE
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    The Verified Healing Miracles at Lourdes

    THE HEALING SPRING BY THE HOUSE OF THE VIRGIN MARY ON TOP OF A SMALL MOUNTAIN JUST OUTSIDE THE MASSIVE RUINS OF ANCIENT EPHESUS I find it fascinating that the healing springs miraculously dug up by Bernadette at Mary's behest is not the only healing Marian springs. My fellow parishioner Dick...
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    My Life Journey through the Lens of Many Charismatic and Paranormal Experiences

    (17) One night after dark, I felt a strong impulse to walk to an intersection a block from my apartment. I had no idea why. I ordinarily never go for a walk after dark; so I initially resisted the impulse, but then decided to obey it in the outside chance it was divinely inspired. It was...
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    The Verified Healing Miracles at Lourdes

    Just recently a little girl Maya was healed at Lourdes of advanced metastatic cancer, with tumors all vanishing...
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    Do you sing hymns?

    I find it hard to worship singing many of the tiresome repetitive lyrics of modern praise choruses. In my city Big AL's is a secular coffee shop that plays organ and piano tunes of old time hymns. I love to listen to them as I drink my 20 ounce, 4 shot mocha with chocloate.
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    The Verified Healing Miracles at Lourdes

    A week ago, I was reminded that the apparitions of Mary at Lourdes in 1858 coincided with the Third Great Awakening that swept the USA beginning in 1857, resulting in countless Christians suddenly being promoted to spend long periods in prayer. You can read about it here...
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    The Verified Healing Miracles at Lourdes

    Don't underestimate the diversity within the UMC .In my last UMC pastorate, a tongues speaker like me preached on the continuing legitimacy of the sign gifts of the Spirit. When I retired there, I was replaced by a UMC pastor who had spoken in tongues in fluent Korean, as was verified by a...
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    The Verified Healing Miracles at Lourdes

    In the 19th century, evangelicals hatched the heresy of cessationism as a way of rejecting such "Catholic" miracles. These cessationists should instead have humbled themselves and asked, "Why does Catholic faith produce such healing miracles when our own faith doesn't?" And I say this as an...
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