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.
Rose Nicolson Part 2: A student sets sail for university and St Andrew s
In the second of five installments from Andrew Greig’s new historical novel Rose Nicolson, William Fowler of Anchor Close departs Edinburgh.
Monday, 26th July 2021, 4:55 am
Andrew Greig s book, In Another Light wins the 2004 Saltire Society/Faculty of Advocates Scottish Book of the Year
Chapter 1: A Student Departs
I hear and feel it yet under my scrieving hand, the scrape and shudder of our door as I forced it open into the Embra dawn. I stood a long minute neither fully in nor fully out – a lifelong position with me, I suppose. The wind through the Castle Gait rugged at my cloak. It would be a rough passage.