Engaging the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers

Engaging the Holy Spirit: Real Questions, Practical Answers, by Graham A. Cole

Seeks to answer six crucial questions that affect a believer’s relationship to the Holy Spirit:

* What is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?
* How does a person resist him?
* Ought we to pray to the Spirit?
* How do we quench the Spirit?
* How do we grieve the Spirit? and
* How does he fill us?

“I cannot imagine that there are many pastors who have not heard each of the six questions that Graham Cole raises. Here are serious, careful, practical, theologically alert answers. This book deserves the widest circulation.”
- D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

“Pneumatology has been sadly neglected in recent evangelical theology, and when it has been touched upon, it has trended toward either the speculative or the sensational. But here is a book on the Holy Spirit that is practical, relevant, balanced, and useful in the lives of God’s people everywhere. This book provides important grounding for a fuller theology of the Holy Spirit, and I commend it to all believers who are serious about the Christian life.”
- Timothy George, Dean, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University; Senior Editor, Christianity Today

“Drawing from the well of his extensive and rigorous study of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, Graham Cole gives refreshingly clear answers to six crucial questions that earnest Christians invariably ask. The answers are sure to grace the church, because what Christians believe about the third Person of the Trinity will determine how they live. This is an important, accessible, life-giving book.”
- R. Kent Hughes, Senior Pastor Emeritus, College Church, Wheaton, Illinois

“When churches wrestle with division over contradictory views related to the work of the Holy Spirit, this book will provide lucid and succinct guidance. When individuals fear they have grieved the Holy Spirit, Dr. Cole’s teaching will provide clarity and encouragement. When church leaders long for their congregations to know the filling of the Spirit of God, they will find wisdom in this book. I recommend it highly.”
- Greg Waybright, Former President, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; Senior Pastor, Lake Avenue Church, Pasadena, California

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Pneumatology

Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recommended the following books on Pneumatology.

Badcock, Gary D. Light of Truth and Fire of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997.

Bruner, Fredrick Dale. A Theology of the Holy Spirit: The Pentecostal Experience and the New Testament Witness. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.

Fee, Gordon. God’s Empowering Presence. Peabody: Hendrickson, 1994.

Ferguson, Sinclair B. The Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: IVP, 1996.

Green, Michael. I Believe in the Holy Spirit. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975.

Grudem, Wayne A., ed. Are Miraculous Gifts for Today? Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.

Hanegraaff, Hank. Counterfeit Revial: Looking for God in All the Wrong Places. Exp. and updated. Waco: Word, 2001.

MacArthur, John, Jr. Charismatic Chaos. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992.

Packer, J.I. Keep in Step with the Holy Spirit. Old Tappan: Revell, 1984.

Turner, Max. The Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1998.

Williams, Donald. The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit. Nashville: Broadman, 1994.

Spirit Led Preaching, by Greg Heisler

John MacArthur has endorsed Greg Heisler’s new book Spirit Led Preaching: The Holy Spirit’s Role in Sermon Preparation and Delivery. MacArthur writes, “A great help and encouragement to any preacher who longs for the Spirit’s true anointing in
the pulpit.”

Pneumatology – Criswell College Recommendations

The following books on Pneumatology are recommended in the publication Beginning Your Theological Library published by the Criswell College.