Can a Christian experience God's love in such a way that they feel sure they are going to heaven? Receiving the Holy Spirit is Luke's preferred term for baptism in the Holy Spirit in Acts. This is mostly about us being assured that we are Christians by the love of God being poured out into our hearts. I realise it is a controversial subject, but I hope I have handled it in a balanced way.
For centuries, the Church, in conceit, arrogance and ignorance, has claimed that she alone was the true Israel, that she had replaced the ancient covenant people. (They certainly didn’t claim to be Jewish during the Holocaust!) The Church taught emphatically that the physical people of Israel were
‘The Valley of Vision’ houses a treasury of prayers written by the Puritans, crafted for various seasons of the Christian life, and the prayers still sing with relevance and power today.