Baptised and filled with the Spirit: Part 1 Baptism

Baptised with (or in) the Spirit Second blessing theology This blog post is the second of seven posts about the Holy Spirit leading up to Pentecost. These posts are also the last in an intermittent series on the Holy Spirit. -oOo- This last week, particularly Thursday 16th April, there has been the tag #MeAt20 trending …

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Why Autism Awareness Month can be traumatising for autistic people – Autistic Not Weird

On Monday 30th March I published a blog post on why I would not be celebrating Autism Awareness week. https://stevenhpape.blog/2020/03/30/autism-awareness-autism-acceptance-and-why-i-am-not-participating-in-autism-awareness-week/ This is along the same lines from someone with more knowledge than me... Over to Captain Quirk: It doesn’t seem quite right, does it? That a month designated for raising public knowledge of autism would …

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The Holy Spirit, past present and future

The Holy Spirit in three tenses A lot of teaching in Christianity comes in three tenses: Past, present and future. Take Salvation,  we can say that we have been saved (either when we made a commitment to Jesus, when we were baptised or 2,000 years ago at the annunciation/crucifixion/ascension &mdash: choose your theology), we are …

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