What Are Spiritual Gifts?(1st Edition) (Basics of the Faith) by Dr VernS. Poythress Paperback, 40 Pages, Published 2010 by P & R Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-59638-209-1, ISBN: 1-59638-209-0
"Spiritual gifts, given by God, empower believers to serve others in both the church and the world. However, our own spiritual gifts today aren't always easy to identify. What gifts are there? How should they be used? Which gifts apply to the apostolic era? Which apply to us?Even among serious, searching believers, these are still divisive questions. Can light be shed on these issues? Vern Poythress illuminates them by turning to the aut ..."
"The love that the Father has for his Son is expressed by the Father giving the
Spirit to the Son: “He gives the Spirit without measure” (John 3:34). This verse
about the giving of the Spirit describes the bounty of the Father to the Son
immediately before the affirmation about the Father's love (v. 35). The Father also
expresses his relationship to his Son by giving “all things” to him, according to
John 3:35. Another aspect of the ..."
"I need not go into details, but my reading from Abraham Kuyper, Herman
Dooyeweerd, Cornelius Van Til, Hendrik van Riessen, D. H. Th. Vollenhoven,
and Hendrik G. Stoker convinced me that the foundations of modernism rested on
sand. I still appreciated the things that I was learning in my modernist
environment. But I did not agree with the foundational assumptions—the
worldview—that came along with that environment. That time, during ..."
"+ 1 1,001 + 1,001 + 1,001 + . . . + 1,001 There are 1,000 copies of 1,001, for a
total of 1,000 X 1,001. Either row by itself is half of this, or 1,000 X 1,001/2. In
general, for the addition of the first n natural numbers, the sum is n X (n+1)/2. We
can obtain the same result in another way, by mathematical induction.
Mathematical induction relies on the fundamental intuition about the integers, that
we can obtain the integers by ..."
"Christian commentators have pointed to the contradictions of the modern world, and they have asserted that the answers to these contradictions can be found in the Bible. Yet whenever pastors or Christian instructors confront the congregations or each other with concrete requirements of biblical law, the instant response in that "the churches shouldn't meddle in things that don't concern them," meaning politics, economics, or anything el ..."
The Mystery of the Trinity A Trinitarian Approach to the Attributes of God by VernS. Poythress Published 2020 by P & R Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-62995-651-0, ISBN: 1-62995-651-1