How do Christians receive the Holy Spirit? Being filled with the Holy Spirit is so important to Christians that Paul commands us to “be filled with the Spirit” (Ephesians 5:18). Paul declares even more emphatically, “If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is...

What is the latter rain? The phrase “latter rain” is an agricultural term found in several places in the Bible (Deuteronomy 11:13–14; James 5:7–8). In Israel’s crop growing season, there were two necessary seasons of rain to bring a harvest. The early rain (also...