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Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today (Repackaged Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Gift and Giver, leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener takes a probing look at the various evangelical understandings of the role of the Holy Spirit in the church. He explores topics such as spiritual gifts, the fruit of the Spirit, the Spirit’s power for evangelism, and hearing God’s voice. His desire is for Christians to “work for consensus, or at least for unity in God’s work despite...

look at the cross to find it. Paul informs us of this same reality: While we were yet sinners, enemies of God, he proved his love for us by sending Jesus to die for us (Rom. 5:6–8). Now “God has poured out his love toward us by the Spirit he has freely given us” (Rom. 5:5; see also Eph. 3:16–19)—an experience that in this context means the Spirit has come into our hearts and now points to the cross, assuring us over and over again, “See! I love you! I love you! I love you!” To the abused child, to
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