Product Description

This book presents both personal and biblical reasons why God still speaks and heals today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #263661 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 302 pages

From the Back Cover
What caused a former Dallas Seminary professor to believe that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit are being given today? What convinced someone skeptical about miracles that God still speaks and heals? A dramatic change took place in Jack Deere's life when he took a fresh look at the Scriptures. He discovered that his arguments against miraculous gifts were based more on prejudice and lack of personal experience than on the Bible. As soon as Deere became a seeker instead of a skeptic, the Holy Spirit revealed himself in new and surprising ways. In Surprised by the Power of the Spirit, Deere provides a strong biblical defense for the Spirit's speaking and healing ministries today. He also describes several reliable cases of people who were miraculously healed or who heard God speak in an unmistakable way. Finally, he gives sound advice for using spiritual gifts in the church. Written in a popular style, with the care of a scholar but the passion of personal experience, this book explores: the real reason Christians do not believe in miraculous gifts, responding to charismatic abuses, whether miracles were meant to be temporary, and why God still heals.

About the Author
Jack Deere, formerly an associate professor of Old Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary, is a writer and lecturer who speaks throughout the world on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He is the author of the best-selling book, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit.

Customer Reviews

Get over your cessationist beliefs!
If you believe God no longer heals, or gifts his people with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and no longer speaks to His people, and that all these went out with the apostles, then you are in the same boat that former "cessationist" reformed thelogian Jack Deere was in until the early 1990s when God turned his experience and then his theology the right way up. This book is both a very interesting auto-biography of change and a tightly argued theology of the ongoing powerful activity of the Holy Spirit. It will not leave you indifferent.