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The day that this article is posting, April 1, 2026, is the Day of Passover. This day is a day of commemoration for the Israelite people for the remembrance of the final plague that God placed upon the nation of Egypt just prior to the Israelites leaving Egypt after 430 years there. This marked the end of their slavery and the beginning of the journey by which God truly made the Israelite nation His. The Passover celebration centres largely around the meal, the format of which is partially set out by God Himself in the Scriptures, but which has also taken certain elements of tradition and interwoven them into the ritual. This celebration has been in effect for thousands of years, ever since God instructed Moses to make it an annual tradition beginning the year after the Israelites exited Egypt. The Passover became relevant to the Christian faith at the moment when the Christian faith began to take root, almost 2000 years ago, but the connections between the Passover and the Christ ste...

   We are approaching the Christian celebrations of Good Friday and Easter. Good Friday is the day that the church has set aside to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus, and Easter is, of course, the recognition of the resurrection of Jesus as the Messiah and our Saviour, having conquered death and paid the penalty for our sins. These Christian celebrations always coincide with the Jewish celebration of Passover, for very good reason, because they are locked together by meaning if not by the calendar. The Day of Passover is a day of commemoration for the Israelite people for the remembrance of the final plague that God placed upon the nation of Egypt just prior to the Israelites leaving Egypt after being there for 430 years. This marked the end of their slavery and the beginning of the journey by which God truly made the Israelite nation His. The Day of Passover became relevant to the Christian faith at the moment when the Christian faith began to take root, almost 2000 ...

  Picture from Wallpapers.com - twodazza  This is the sixth and the final instalment in my series of articles about the baptism by the Holy Spirit. If you have somehow found yourself here without having read the previous articles, I would encourage you to start with the first article and work your way through so that you will get to follow the entire process by which we have found ourselves here, as this has been an exploratory exercise for me and not just a treatise of what I understood when I started writing these articles. In this series, we have seen that, while a Believer will receive the Holy Spirit upon the confession of faith in Jesus and His gift of salvation, this is an indwelling of the Holy Spirit for guidance and comfort, but this does not seem to include an empowerment of the Believer to perform works to advance the kingdom of God. The receipt of the Holy Spirit is a first experience, while the baptism by the Holy Spirit is a second experience. We see this exam...