“We tend to focus on extraordinary things, like the Apostles being able to speak in many languages and everybody’s surprise about this. But the Holy Ghost doesn’t come to give us extraordinary powers for the sake of giving us extraordinary powers.”
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Reading through the prophecy of Joel
It’s Pentecost Sunday, and the prophet of Pentecost is Joel; so let’s have a run through this short book of prophecy… Joel begins with a great calamity upon the nation of Israel: either some terrible invading army that is figured as swarms of locusts has destroyed the countryside, or else some terrible natural calamity (likeContinue reading “Reading through the prophecy of Joel”