Oswald Chambers | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:02:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg Oswald Chambers | Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires https://anitamathias.com 32 32 He Was My Champagne; Now He Is My Bread. My Changing Experience of the Holy Spirit https://anitamathias.com/2015/11/10/he-was-my-champagne-now-he-is-my-bread-my-changing-ways-of-relating-to-the-holy-spirit/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/11/10/he-was-my-champagne-now-he-is-my-bread-my-changing-ways-of-relating-to-the-holy-spirit/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2015 10:42:02 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=65325 My first conscious experience with the Holy Spirit was also my most dramatic. I strayed into a Charismatic meeting at my ancestral hometown, Mangalore, India, when I was 17. My father was patronising and mildly amused, and flatly refused to take me again. And so I went to the visiting Spanish priest preaching the retreat, […]

The post He Was My Champagne; Now He Is My Bread. My Changing Experience of the Holy Spirit first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2015/11/10/he-was-my-champagne-now-he-is-my-bread-my-changing-ways-of-relating-to-the-holy-spirit/feed/ 10 The Best Thing You Can Do with your Life: Sign it Over. (Inspired by Bill Bright.) https://anitamathias.com/2015/10/24/the-best-thing-you-can-do-with-your-life-sign-it-over-inspiration-from-bill-bright/ https://anitamathias.com/2015/10/24/the-best-thing-you-can-do-with-your-life-sign-it-over-inspiration-from-bill-bright/#comments Sat, 24 Oct 2015 22:02:22 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/?p=65187 I read an arresting blog about Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, and one of the post-War generation of entrepreneurial American Christian giants—like Billy Graham, Bob Pierce of World Vision, Francis Schaeffer of L’Abri, or George Verwer of Operation Mobilization. As newly-wed Christians, Bill and Vonette Bright were disappointed with each other. After a quarrel, Bill […]

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