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Stimulating theology is an oxymoron for most people. "Theology" sounds like something for the severely intellectual, full of complicated ideas that escape the typical Christian reader. In reality, theology is meant to enhance our understanding of God. Most of the words that make up the Christian vocabulary are common words, drawn from the realities of life, and therefore are easily applicable to...

“speaking in tongues” in conjunction with “the gift of the Holy Spirit” was in the house of Cornelius (10:45–46). This speaking in tongues could not have been ecstatic utterances because Peter said these Gentiles had “received the Holy Spirit just as we have” (10:47). If at Pentecost the disciples were speaking in actual languages the disciples had not learned, the believing Gentiles in Caesarea, too, must have spoken actual languages. The same is true of Paul’s experience in Ephesus with the disciples
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