Author Archives: St. John Studies

The concept of the Holy Spirit as a self-conscious individual, a human entity inhabiting the earth; that idea gives me trouble. I expressed that in my previous post “Holy Spirit as Person.” Maybe the confusion that I have is just … Continue reading →

Pentecost is a day of celebration occurring fifty days after Easter. This year, it fell on May 20 and our pastor and choir director tried to give our church a representation of the Holy Spirit. A wind sound was piped … Continue reading →

Can you imagine what the disciples felt? Jesus knew His time was short and He wanted to tell them He had to leave them. And then He said this… “But now I am going to Him who sent Me; and … Continue reading →

Well here I am… Try as hard as I can, I have done it again. I start every day thinking about what I did yesterday, thinking about what I did wrong. Thinking about my sins. Wishing I had not done … Continue reading →

“And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they … Continue reading →

It’s moving day… This move does not require a U-Haul truck rental. You don’t have to call a moving company. You don’t even have to load up your car. Like a physical move, it requires a commitment. The idea is … Continue reading →

  I try not to get too personal in this blog; it is supposed to be dedicated to my thoughts about a book rather than my thoughts alone. My wife says “David, you have to get to an end with … Continue reading →

It was a minor dilemma. My son married a wonderful Colombian woman. So a few years ago, my wife and I had an opportunity to go to Colombia South America for Christmas. We did not know Spanish and we knew … Continue reading →

“God transcendently sees us from a wider vision of why and how we are.”* I guess it is just human nature, the tendency to emphasize differences between ourselves and others, but I don’t believe that God sees us that way. … Continue reading →

Words come and go. By that I mean that the times we live in can create words, the technology, the culture, the politics of the time. Today, America is going through a time when people line up against each other, … Continue reading →