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Worship the Spirit
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - June 25, 2024 05:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsJoin Scott Aniol on By the Waters of Babylon as he delves into biblical principles, historical insights, and valuable resources to help Christians navigate and live faithfully in a post-Christian culture. Each episode provides thoughtful discussions aimed at equipping believers to stand firm in t...
Worship and the Word
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - June 18, 2024 05:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsJoin Scott Aniol on By the Waters of Babylon as he delves into biblical principles, historical insights, and valuable resources to help Christians navigate and live faithfully in a post-Christian culture. Each episode provides thoughtful discussions aimed at equipping believers to stand firm in t...
Be Filled with … Emotion?
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - June 11, 2024 05:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsJoin Scott Aniol on By the Waters of Babylon as he delves into biblical principles, historical insights, and valuable resources to help Christians navigate and live faithfully in a post-Christian culture. Each episode provides thoughtful discussions aimed at equipping believers to stand firm in t...
Decently and in Order: The Spirit’s Work in Corporate Worship
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - June 04, 2024 05:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsOften when Christians today think of the Holy Spirit’s work in worship, they anticipate that if he is working, then there will be high euphoria, and surprising, spontaneous outbursts of praise. But is that really how we ought to expect the Spirit to work in corporate worship? ★ Suppo...
Gifting for Service: How the Spirit Gifts Today
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - May 28, 2024 06:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsHow does the Holy Spirit gift believers today? ★ Support this podcast ★
How Do You Know the Spirit Is Working in Your Life?
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - May 21, 2024 05:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsTo walk by the Spirit is to let him fill us with his Word, and so we must read his Word. To walk by the Spirit is to pursue those qualities that characterize the Spirit, and so we must meditate upon Scripture and actively work to pursue those things. To walk by the Spirit is to allow th...
What Does Spirit-filling Mean?
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - May 14, 2024 05:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsLikely the most important truth about the Holy Spirit’s active work that we must remember is that the Holy Spirit always works through his Word. Through his illuminating power, the Spirit opens our minds and hearts to accept and submit to the authority of the Word that he inspired. And ...
The Indwelling and Illumination of the Holy Spirit
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - May 07, 2024 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsPraise be to God for his Spirit’s supernatural work of illumination in our hearts. Without it, we would not be able to accept the things of the Spirit of God, we would not recognize them as the truthful, authoritative revelation of God that they are, and we would not willingly submit ou...
What Is Spirit Baptism?
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - April 30, 2024 05:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsThrough the Spirit, we who believe are united to Christ and to one another in Christ’s body. Through the Spirit, we who believe enjoy a special communion with Christ and with the Father, along with everyone else who believes (2 Cor 13:14). As Paul clearly states, “For through [Christ] w...
The Holy Spirit's Most Supernatural Work
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - April 23, 2024 05:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsWithout the work of the Holy Spirit, there would be no salvation. God the Spirit completes and perfects the plan of God the Father and the atonement of God the Son in the lives of God’s elect. The Spirit brings order to disordered souls. And he accomplishes all that he does through his ...
Testifying of Christ: The Holy Spirit’s Ordering of God’s People
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - April 16, 2024 05:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsWhen we truly understand the Holy Spirit’s purpose in empowering individuals throughout history, it ought to lead us to one unmistakable conclusion: the Holy Spirit of God wants us to trust in Christ. Everything he has done to order God’s plan through special empowerment led to the Anoi...
God-Breathed: The Holy Spirit’s Work in Revelation
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - March 28, 2024 05:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsSpirit-inspired revelation is both for the purpose of order and produced in an orderly fashion. ★ Support this podcast ★
Beauty and Harmony: The Holy Spirit’s Work in Creation
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - March 21, 2024 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsIn ordering God’s creation, beautifying Israel’s tabernacle, and bringing life to the First Adam and the Last Adam, the Spirit perfects and completes God’s eternal plan in history. ★ Support this podcast ★
Holy Spirit: God of Order
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - March 14, 2024 05:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsWe should expect the Spirit to normally work today in ways that bring order and completion to the plan and people of God. ★ Support this podcast ★
The Tongues of Angels? The Pentecostalization of Spiritual Gifts in Evangelicalism
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - March 06, 2024 12:37 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsContemporary evangelicalism has been thoroughly Pentecostalized with the expectation that if the Holy Spirit is active and working, then we will witness extraordinary effects ranging from direct revelation, special gifting, and emotional euphoria. In addition to receiving new revelation...
God Told Me: The Pentecostalization of Evangelical Theology of Revelation
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - February 01, 2024 06:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsOne significant way the Pentecostalization of Evangelicalism reveals itself even among those who would claim to be cessationists is in common evangelical expectations regarding how God speaks to us and how he reveals his will to us. It is very common in modern evangelicalism, for exampl...
Holy Spirit, You Are Welcome Here: The Pentecostalization of Evangelical Worship
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - January 30, 2024 14:08 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsIf you were to ask the average Christian today what our expectation should be regarding how the Holy Spirit works, I believe most Christians would answer something like this: If the Holy Spirit is actively working, his work will be evidenced by some sort of extraordinary experience—inte...
The Lord Reigns
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - November 21, 2023 06:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsOne key reason Christians shy away from some of the psalms is the sometimes violent imprecatory language found in them. In this article, Scott Aniol explains that psalms like these are deeply rooted in confidence that God is the Sovereign King of Kings, and therefore to sing them helps ...
Why Christian Faithfulness?
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - November 16, 2023 06:22 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsWhy is it so important to have our motivation right about how we live in society? Why is it important that we don’t try to motivate ourselves and others with grand ambitions of societal transformation? ★ Support this podcast ★
Creation Is God's Temple
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - November 09, 2023 06:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsWhen the prophet Isaiah “saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up,” what he saw was the reality of God’s heavenly temple: “and the train of his robe filled the temple.” Heaven is a royal palace from which God sovereignly rules, but it is also a holy temple, filled with God...
Decent and Orderly Corporate Worship
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - November 02, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratings“Our church’s worship is pretty formal, but I prefer Holy Spirit-led worship.” Such was the comment I overheard recently by a young evangelical describing his church’s worship service, illustrating a very common perception by many evangelicals today—if the Holy Spirit actively works in ...
Worship Regulated by Scripture
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - October 26, 2023 05:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsIn order for worship to properly form God’s people as God has intended, every aspect of our worship—including our worship aesthetics, must be formed and shaped by the Word of God. ★ Support this podcast ★
Baptists and Biblical Authority
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - October 19, 2023 05:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsIn contrast to the Reformed understanding of the regulative principle, Baptists have historically and theologically insisted upon New Testament warrant for both the substance and forms of church practice. ★ Support this podcast ★
The Reformation of Worship
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - October 12, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsThe immediate causes for Reformation in various regions, as well as what caused divisions among various Reformation figures, are diverse. However, much of what lay at the core of what both unified Reformers in their reaction against the Roman Catholic Church and what ended up dividing t...
A Theology of Christian Worship
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - October 05, 2023 05:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsBelievers from the earliest years of Christianity—especially those coming out of Judaism—struggled with how to understand the relationship between Israel’s worship, Christian worship, and the real worship of heaven. In fact, the confusion escalated to such a point that some apostatized ...
Foundations of Biblical Worship
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - September 28, 2023 13:17 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratings"Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.” This ancient hymn captures three eras of worship: as it was in the beginning—the worship of Old Testament Israel, as it is now—the worship of N...
Christ's Commission to His Church
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - August 30, 2023 15:31 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsChurches as formal, local institutions have been given a very specific, singular mission in this age, best articulated in the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19–20. You can read this article here. ★ Support this podcast ★
Christ's Authority over His Church
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - August 23, 2023 06:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsIt is very important that we carefully consider the central mission that Christ has given through his apostles for gathered New Testament churches. Listen as Scott Aniol discusses this topic. You can read an article version here. ★ Support this podcast ★
If the Foundations Are Destroyed
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - June 21, 2023 05:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsDo you ever feel like everything around us is crumbling? You look around and wickedness seems to be everywhere, and you wonder: where is God in all this? And not only that, they're prospering! One of the core purposes of the psalms is to help us navigate this kind of reality, which has...
Ordaining Female Pastors Harms the Mission: A Response to Rick Warren
By the Waters of Babylon with Scott Aniol - June 12, 2023 05:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 94 ratingsRick Warren is pushing the SBC to stop "bickering about secondary issues" like women pastors and focus on our mission. Is this a fair argument? Listen as Scott Aniol refutes Warren. You can read this essay here. Scott Aniol's blog: https://g3min.org/blogs/scott-aniol/ Article, audio,...
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