If you have more confusion than clarity about the Holy Spirit, you're not alone. Explore the person and work of the Spirit from an early Christian perspective and discover what the first believers taught.
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This free course with Chuck Pike addresses common confusion about the Holy Spirit by returning to Scripture, especially Jesus’ teaching in John 14–16. The lessons begin by asking why the Holy Spirit matters and why some Christian circles either minimize the Spirit or treat the Spirit in ways detached from scriptural authority. From there, the course studies the nature and character of the Holy Spirit, including the biblical language of spirit, wind, and breath;
the Spirit’s divinity and personality; and the Spirit’s work through the prophets. Later lessons connect the Spirit’s mission with early Christian explanations of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, Old Testament pictures from the Exodus journey, and the Christian life as a wilderness pilgrimage. The course also considers how the Holy Spirit inspired the apostles and prophets, why the faith was handed down as a trust, and how believers should seek, receive, and live as temples of the Holy Spirit.
This opening lesson is listed as a course-completion guide. No transcript was supplied, so no additional topical claims can be made from the source material.
This lesson introduces the course by addressing confusion about the Holy Spirit and returning to Jesus’ teaching in John 14–16. It contrasts minimizing the Spirit with treating the Spirit apart from Scripture, and presents the Spirit as central to understanding God and Christian life.
This lesson studies the biblical language of spirit, including its links with wind and breath, while emphasizing that the Holy Spirit is not an impersonal force. It presents the Spirit as divine, personal, life-giving, active in resurrection and new birth, and the one who spoke through the prophets.
This lesson looks at the Holy Spirit’s role in relation to the Father and the Son, using Scripture as the standard while also considering early Christian explanations. It warns against inadequate analogies for the Trinity and offers older illustrations meant to preserve both unity and distinction.
This lesson reads the Exodus journey as a biblical picture that helps explain the Holy Spirit’s work. It connects the pillar of cloud and fire, the passage through water, and water from the rock with the Spirit’s guidance, protection, sustaining presence, and role in salvation.
Building on the Exodus imagery, this lesson argues that the whole Christian life is a wilderness journey rather than a brief difficult season. It also connects Jesus’ promises about the Spirit with confidence in the apostles’ memory of Jesus’ words and the inspiration of Scripture.
This lesson focuses on Jesus’ promise that the Spirit would guide into all truth and asks who that promise was given to. It argues that the promise applies to the apostles in a foundational way, so the faith handed down through them is a completed trust to be guarded without additions or subtractions.
This lesson turns to receiving and being filled with the Holy Spirit, including Jesus’ teaching that the Father gives the Holy Spirit to those who ask. It also applies the Spirit’s indwelling to holiness, the body as God’s temple, not grieving the Spirit, unity, and testing all claims about the Spirit by Scripture.
This final item is listed as a course survey. No transcript was supplied, so it should be treated as a feedback or completion item rather than a topical teaching lesson.
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