The Presence of the Paraclete: the gifts and the fruits of the Holy Spirit - Paperback

by John-Paul Lotz (Author)

This collection of meditations arose from a series of sermons following Easter and serve as an invitation for all believers in the Church to personally embrace the Holy Spirit in order to move more closely and obediently with the Spirit's will. With a focus on the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, these sermons remind us of the importance of our relationship with the Paraclete-particularly how the Spirit is constantly directing us towards Jesus Christ in the way that we live out our lives, in our bodies here on the earth. Authentic Christian spirituality is an embodied spirituality and our physical lives are the terrain upon which God's rule and reign must begin.

Author Biography

JOHN-PAUL LOTZ Dr John-Paul Lotz was born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland to parents who were American Baptist missionaries in Eastern Europe in the 1970's. He grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and attended the University of Richmond. After obtaining his Master of Divinity from Beeson Divinity School, he went on to complete four units in Clinical Pastoral Education at Baptist Health System in Birmingham, Alabama and was ordained as a Virginia Baptist pastor at his home church, Columbia Baptist. He then moved with his wife to Cambridge, United Kingdom where he completed a Ph.D. in Patristics. Dr. Lotz has taught Church History and Pastoring at the London School of Theology and served as pastor at a Baptist Church in Rickmansworth. Today he resides with his wife and six children on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he is involved in church planting.